[Centos] Some newbie (straightforward) questions especially regarding KDE and packages :)

[levandowski at sent.com (John T. Levandowski)]

Olaf Greve wrote:

> 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?

edit the file /etc/inittab from
id:5:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:

Also, I don't think by default it starts in KDE but rather GNOME.

> 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?

yum install synaptic
run synaptic in GNOME.