Hi Everyone, About a month ago I installed Fedora, my first experience with Linux. So far I'm really enjoying it. I got so frustrated with Vista that I wiped it from my hd and installed F10.. I'll NEVER go back to Windows! My writing experience is articles and short stories. So far I've screwed up several times trying to install tarballs then I discovered the readme files which have helped some. I still have problems with the right commands. I installed VirtualBox and have been playing with Ubuntu, PCLinux and Puppy Linux and discovered I like Fedora much more. Fedora seems very stable, fairly user friendly and is very flexible in that its limited only by what you want to do with it. I used to make .bat files in DOS before Windows came out...guess that kind of dates me, anyway, the command line looks like an old friend. Learning enough so I can actually help is my biggest worry. Hopefully someone will be willing be my mentor for a while. I look forward to meeting everyone. Sincerely, Kirk Ziegler