Re: newbie

[michael fivis <michaelfivis verizon net>]

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NeuralDecimation aol com wrote:

| *hello all, i'm having a bit of a problem getting started with
| gnome. i have a Dell Latitude laptop windows xp professional OS
| already installed with most likely i386 architecture. i dont know
| where to go from here. i've tried download sites but i keep getting
|  web pages with errors and such. i have no clue what tarballs are.
| is there a download site that i can just download the entire gnome
| package possibly with an .exe extension that'll just simply
| run/install for me? maybe an image that i can burn to CD for a
| bootable format? i have no clue what's going on with this stuff.
| all i know is i want every available options and applications
| available when i get it installed, the full package;) do i have to
| download each tarball ( i dont even know if that's correct usage of
|  the term) one by one in order and then install each one in order
| one by one? thanks in advance for your time and help.  ps if any
| additional copies of this message got through, disregard as they
| are just copies of this message.*

wow okay. First, Gnome has nothing to do with Windows XP. So you will
not find exe executables for Windows or any bootable image. On top of
this, it is only a front end to the linux/unix operating system.
Second, if you are indeed interested in Linux, then
http://fedora.redhat.com is a good place to start for learning about
linux. from there you will be able to download bootable CD images of
the Fedora Linux OS.


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