[salve]

what is KDE and GNOME?

[salve]

Mandrake? What's that? I'm completely new in linux, can somebody give me a hint how linux work,
how bout different type of linux? how bout Red Hat?

[Northbridge]

Originally posted by salve
what is KDE and GNOME?

KDE and GNOME are Linux desktop enviornments/shells.
When running linux you can use either of these.
KDE is usually more fullfeatured while GNOME has a simpler interface.

[Hotwheelz]

Originally posted by salve
Mandrake? What's that? I'm completely new in linux, can somebody give me a hint how linux work,
how bout different type of linux? how bout Red Hat?

Mandrake is just one distrobution of Linux. You have Red Hat, Mandrake, Gentoo, Fedora....and a ton more. Its all Linux, just distrobuted by different people. There are differences, but the basics are the same.

Head on over to www.linuxiso.org and take a look at their descriptions for the different Linux distros.

[Mickroy]

You should go do some reading salve. Goto a good search engine and look up what you wanna know. There are already millions of how-to's out there that will teach you the basics in very plain english.

[hilowe]

linux.org and linuxdocs.org are websites devoted to teaching people linux. Might be a good idea to check those sites out.