more RedHat questions...

[Aemon_]

ok, you know when you view a windows box in VNC you can see the actual gui display.... is there a way to do this with a linux box. i'm a newbie, and would actually like to work in gnome for the time being. i will get into the command line stuff once i get it working properly.

thanks all!

[Aemon_]

no ideas huh?

[Prometheus]

Ask merclord

[Aemon_]

good idea, thanks!

[StinkyMojo]

Ask merclord

pro.. your avatar is from system shock, no? lol being a hardcore gamer owns...

[Jason425]

Ask merclord

pro.. your avatar is from system shock, no? lol being a hardcore gamer owns...
http://brawl-hall.com/gallery/data/media/5/suidog.jpg

[Aemon_]

hey! don't thread jack my thread!!!!

j/k. have a day.

[xMerCLorDx]

ok, you know when you view a windows box in VNC you can see the actual gui display.... is there a way to do this with a linux box. i'm a newbie, and would actually like to work in gnome for the time being. i will get into the command line stuff once i get it working properly.

thanks all!

with XFree86 (http://xfree86.org/), X Window managers including but not limited to gnome, have an interesting client/server model. It is almost the most unique and interesting feature actually. here's some information about it: http://www.x.org/X11.html
and i'm sure you may want an X Client for windows: http://x.cygwin.com/

when you say you want to do this and learn the command line stuff later, i think you'll find anything to do with unix involves a deeper understanding of the 'command line stuff'. especially if you want to configure X properly to take advantage of the client/server networked feature. so if you're seriously interested in learning about unix in general, and not how to click around in a gui, then start with a little RTFM! and understand how unix works. :)

[Aemon_]

you know, i never really found what RTFM means.... anyway, do you know of any serious newbie tutorials to RedHat, or linux in general? thanks for the help merc.

[Dragon]

yeah wouldnt those be awesome? i cant even find my HD!, well.. i found one but.... its fat32....

[xMerCLorDx]

i don't know what dragon is referring to but..

rtfm = read the _____ing manual :D

there shouldn't be anything difficult about redhat to learn. if you can install it then you can easily play around with things.

[Jason425]

Knoppix was cool until it pretended to recognize my sound but it didn't work and I had no network access.. and my cd rom was too loud...

[StinkyMojo]

gg cyberdrive ;)

[Jason425]

I haven't seen any fast drives that are quiet while spinning. No coasters out of this baby..

[james]

if, otoh, you are looking for a cheap OS that is easy to use w/o having to get a degree in CS, there are ways to do gui acrosss network for linux like remote desktop on windows (or rdesktop and grdeskopt for gnome/linux). However, I have not played with VNC and am unfamiliar with the RH way of doing things. i think googling for xvncviewer or xtightvncviewer might help some. good luck. post your results here!

[xMerCLorDx]

oh ya and look for livecd's. you just burn the iso's and boot to play around, doesn't have to install to hard drive.

unfortunately i have irq issues with many older linux kernel vers.

[Aemon_]

oh yeah, speaking of RTFM, do you know where i can find one. let me rephrase that, one that will actually teach me somthing.

thanks

[xMerCLorDx]

depends on what you'd like to learn and how pretty you like to learn it. i was referring to the man pages to learn the apps such as XFree86.

google search: [insert OS]+manual

http://openbsd.org/faq/index.html
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/
http://www.slackware.com/book/
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/

to download linux:
http://linuxiso.org/

[Aemon_]

thanks for the links. i already have RH9 installed and running. just gotta learn how to use it more better.

thanks again merc.

later