What Will Linux Gurus Allow 5250
Bob Bobbitt
As long as you don't ask the kind of stupid questions that newbie (and even experienced) Windows users have been known to ask then there shouldn't be any problems.
Ergo, I presume you know:
That computers need power to work, and powerstrips should not be plugged into themselves That mice are moved on the table, with the buttons furthest from you and the ball-sensor on the base That 'right click' (spoken) does not mean to type 'c l i c k' with the keyboard, nor to write 'click' on the screen in pencil. That the 'desktop' refers to what is on your screen before you have any windows open, and not what your computer monitor sits on That different pieces of software are...different, e.g. when asked for your kernel version, don't say 'Ubuntu Breezy' etc etc etc
Taking over an X display's screen is a whole lot different from taking over the whole system. One trick, even if X is hopelessly locked up...
I'm not should what would be a good newbie's istro. Avoid debian, gentoo, slackware. Fedora is questionable. Mandriva or SuSE might be good, I've heard of Mepis but never tried it. Ubuntu? Linspire is too much like Windows. If I presume you do not currently have a PC then you can't download a distro so buy a boxed distro such as SuSE or Mandriva, else get a friend to download and burn to CD-DVD a free distro.
First, try the '-9' option to the kill command. The normal kill command sends a signal that a process can choose to handle and possibly ignore. With the "-9" option, a different signal...
-- Tom Wootten, Trinity Hall. oof.trinhall.cam.ac.uk
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