In text consoles you can get a list of possibilities of completions by pressing the tab key. So as an example, if I wanted a list of all commands beginning with speech I would type speech at the command prompt and then press tab and on this system it completes it to speech-dispatcher (as speech-dispatcher is the only command starting with speech I have installed). If there is more than one command, the system may beep when you press tab, pressing tab again will bring up a list, eg. if I were to enter pin at the command prompt and press tab the system beeps (requires system speaker to be enabled), and then when I press tab again I get a list like "ping ping6 pinky" This also works for filenames and directories. It might be worth you finding some HowTos for Linux to find the basic commands, the dos to unix HowTo is a good one for a windows or dos user coming to linux (it only really explains the very basics, but does draw comparisons to the Ms way). There are others for people beginning with Linux, or ones on specific topics (eg. networking, email, etc). Unfortunately I don't have a list of web addresses to hand for this, but here google is a friend, and www.google.com/linux is specific to linux. To explain what was going on when you entered firefox in the text console, firefox is a GUI app, and as the GUI wasn't running it couldn't find the GUI display for it to use, hence its failure to load. Here is a short list of text console apps, not complete, but a starting point. I haven't used GRML so don't know if these are included in GRML by default. nano or pico - a basic text editor vi or vim - more text editors, different style to nano or pico, more advanced ne - again another text editor, advanced cone, pine, mutt or elm - email clients lynx - a basic web browser links or elinks - more advanced web browsers emacs or emacspeak - environment based around a advanced text editor, but extended to much more including email and web browsing ftp - a ftp client man - view software manual pages info - view software info pages mplayer - some argue the player for nearly all formats sox - swiss army knife of sound processing aptitude - a package management system generally used in debian based systems Package management systems are useful starting points for finding out about the software available. From Michael Whapples
