Re: [TCLUG:522] Newbie alert!

["Brian E. Seppanen" <seppanen@pconline.com>]

> 
> Wow, I'm amazed at that...  What have you been putting on that thing?

Word Perfect Demo is about the only thing I've got on there
right now.  I got StarOffice socked away on a win95
partition, but I need space to use it.  Everything else came
stock with RedHat pretty much.  

Anyone on the list gotten StarOffice to work with RedHat 5.0
or 5.1? 

> 
> > The reason this is so silly is
> > because I personally am using this as a desktop computer, I
> > will never have 250MB of disk useage on home.
> 
> Speak for yourself..  On my (mostly) single-user system, I use nearly
> 200 MB of disk space..  Miscellaneous downloaded and compiled stuff..
> (have you mostly been running as root?)


I've been running almost completely as root.  I still
haven't figured how to customize my user environments. 
Still familiarizing myself with the file system.  One of the
confusing things is that UNIX doesn't seem to have a
consistent scheme for storing and running applications. 
That's whats confusing me at any rate.  One person says use
/opt another uses /usr/local another uses /usr/share.  Ahh
what can I say I'm a newbie.

Thanks,
> 
> Mike Hicks

Brian seppanen
seppanen@pconline.com