On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Roger <arelem@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > To know about Fedora 11, I think the first thing is to try and use many > of the applications that are available. Don't worry too much about the > hundreds of applications that make up Fedora packages, just use the ones > you are comfortable with and go from there. > > For instance as a baseline: > If you want programming there are around 30 fairly major applications > to choose from > For Music there are around 10 fairly comprehensive applications to > choose from > For 2D vector and other graphic styles of drawing there are probably 6 > from excellent to average. > For 3D modeling there are 2 really good ones and about 6 ranging from > really good to quite good.. > If you want movies there's not much need to know Fedora, just the apps > that play movies. > > In Fedora the text based manual (man) pages show how to use underlying > applications. > just type man (short for manual) and the application name. > for instance: > man gs will give a help page on ghostscript if it's installed. > man df will tell you about diskfree the disk check application > man du will tell you about disk usage. > man rm will tell you about removing files, use with great care. > To know about Gnome or KDE read the instruction manuals already installed. > > May I suggest getting a book about Fedora, it would provide much useful > information. thanks a lot for the suggestions and the simple purpose why did i ask is that fedora is not as common as was windows but is slowly now replacing it. i would have to see one book for this. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
