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What would be the best linux to download? (newbie)

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Calum:
i was just looking through the huge array of programs that installed with red hat 7.0, and the massive truckload of stuff on the red hat 7.0 cd2, and i can't make head or tail of what any of it is!
Is there some list or documentation that will list the programs included on said cds by category? eg, if i wanted a cd burning program with a frontend, i could look for them on the list and read breif descriptions of the features of each choice et c.
thanx, folx!  :cool:

voidmain:
if you install "cdrecord" and Xcdroast as the graphical frontend, that's a good combo.  There are many out there though, I find that combo to work great for me, in fact a lot of the time I just use the command line "cdrecord" as I can script/automate it easily.  If you look in your /usr/share/doc directory you should find plenty of documentation.  And of course most software comes with manual pages (type: "man commandname") or if you are in KDE press ALT+F2 to bring up a run box and type "#commandname" and it will bring up the manual page in the browser.  And of course there is a whole internet full of documentation for all of the software.  Actually the quickest way since you are new to Linux is to use either the graphical RPM tool or the command line tool to pull the header info from the RPM which will give you a general description of the program, from there a slight amount of searching the previous mentioned places will give you a wealth of documentation.  Just click on the RPM from KDEs file manager and it will bring it up in the graphical RPM manager with a description.

Calum:
thanks! i will try that,
in the meantime i am still looking for a list though, so that you guys don't need to post every program and what it does every time i have a new thing i want to do on the computer!
I haven't trawled through nearly enough of the docs yet, VoidMain, but i will..   ;)

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