Hi all,
I'm new to CentOS and also to KDE, and I find myself with little time to
get acquinted with it well, so I'm hoping someone can give me some quick
pointers for some (surely) really basic matters. I hope the questions
I'm about to ask are not too much 'dead horse flogging', but if so,
perhaps someone can point me to a good FAQ. :)
Having said that, I'll briefly state my background: I'm a developer
(mainly web applications), and my own server runs FreeBSD 5.2.1. I'd say
I have rather advanced (though not guru level) administration knowledge
of FreeBSD, but the same does not apply (yet) to Linux, and then in
particular versions running KDE. On Unix systems I'm most comfortable
working in terminal mode and vi, but I'd like to get to know KDE as
well. BTW: A week or two ago, I configured an RHEL machine as a web
server, so I do know the concepts of up2date and the channels etc.
Then, the questions for now:
1) The machine I installed CentOS (v4.0, including the updates) on
automatically starts up in KDE. Is there a quick and easy way to switch
(upon start up time) to booting in terminal mode?
2) Being in web development, the applications I make have to be tested
against Internet Explorer as well (ideally the Windows versions), is
there a (pretty much 1-on-1) port of IE for KDE?
3) I'm considering ditching Windows XP altogether, but for the same
reasons as mentioned under nr. 2 it would be handy to be able to run
some Windows applications. Is there a VMWare (or other Virtual Machine)
version for KDE/CentOS that can be installed for free, and that can
handle Windows XP/2K installations?
4) An easy question: how can I best search in the set of available
packages? Is there a special tool under KDE that allows one to browse
the available packages, and/or search them?
That's it for now, it probably looks rather funny to be seeing such
novice questions over here, but it's just that I'd like to get some
quick pointers as to how to set this up using KDE rather than the good
'ole hard-core terminal way. ;)
BTW: I'll do some RTFM-ing as well, of course, it's just that I've been
given little time to set this machine up, so some help to get me quickly
in the right direction would be very much appreciated...
I hope anyone can give some quick pointers, and thanks for your time!
Cheers!
Olafo
