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188 Welcome to Linux

In the chapters that follow, we hope to show you the basics of how to get the most out of your new

system. If you’re interested, we will also show you the roads to take which can lead you to becoming

aLinuxguru.

15.1 A Note About Conventions

At the time you installed your Red Hat Linux system, you were given the option of working en-

tirely in a graphical environment, such as GNOME, or logging in from console mode, which is non-

graphical.

If you’re like many new Linux users, you’re familiar with graphical environments such as Microsoft

Windows, Apple Macintosh or IBM’sOS/2.

So it’s a fairly safe bet that you chose to work in a graphical environment when you installed Red

Hat Linux 6.0.

You’ll ﬁnd plenty of opportunities to “point and click” on applications – either on your desktop or

from the menu at the bottom of your desktop. But we’re going to spend much of our time working

from the “shell prompt.”

Why? Because at the same time you accomplish tasks, you can learn a little more about how your

Red Hat Linux system works.

Tip: Unlike a graphical presentation, a “shell prompt” is the way you can type com-

mands directly to the “shell.” You need a shell to use Linux, because it’s the tool you use

to interact with your operating system. You’ll ﬁnd more information about your shell in

Chapter 17 on page 255.

Figure 15.1: The GNOME footprint on the panel

There are plenty of ways to get a shell prompt, depending on the kind of graphical environment

you’re using, such as GNOME. Depending on the environment chosen, just by right- or left-clicking

in a blank space on your desktop, you’ll see a reference to xterm.

By “dragging” your cursor over that item you will open a shell prompt window. Other times, you’ll

ﬁnd you can get a shell prompt window through the menu on your desktop.

In addition to xterm, other references which will give you the shell prompt include:

terminal emulator window

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