Ok, here goes, gang . . . I'm a 42 y/o (male) RN on my 5th or 6th computer, now. (So much for knowing computer programming, etc.) I have done Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, & 98, and some version of Mac once, on one "Macintosh" I had (at home), and Windows NT at work. I understand basic options, with Windows, for management, scandisk, defrag, Norton's Utilities, etc. The other day, I gave up on Windows 98, and installed Linux-Mandrake 6.5, and let me say, first, that I LOVE it. It is SO much more stable! That said, onward . . . (1) I've no sound, except rare beeps from the main computer when I click on something I'm not supposed to click on. I can't hear anything at all from the speakers; (2) How to get "out" of KDE into basic text=driven Linux to run command lines; (3) Gnome runs, but the keyboard dies in Gnome; (4) how to decompress *.gz files, and install, because I wanted to upgrade my Netscape to a 128 bit encryption, and I don't know how; (5) how to work with WINE - I got WINE in a RPM format, ran it (via "root"), and it said it installed, but I couldn't find anything to click on, and never knew how to access it; (6) I tried to install gnucash and xaccount, and the OS called for libXm.so.1, libjpeg.so.6, and libXXm.so.2, which, upon research, I found out to be "Motif" files, not that I know what that is, of course (I don't); (7) I searched "Motif" and got a page about it that totally confused me, and by then I was bummed out big time; (8) how to access emulators, install DOS programs and run them via same, etc. Where are the DOS emulators? What are they called? I can't find them. Thank you. Robert, South Carolina, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
