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[Jim]

Thank you, Steve,
I am curious about how everything works. That is the main reason I installe=
d SuSE 10.1.
Howard Rosen is giving me much assistance in getting started by steering me=
 the tutorials and QnA.
I am saving your email for future reference.
Thanks again.

Jim McAteer

  Hi Jim,

      I have no idea what your level of interest in Linux is, so the
  following may not be of great interest to you. Some people are not
  interested in an operating system other than it quietly sit in the
  background and do it's job. Others like to experiment and explore and
  figure out what makes it tick.
      If you are the explorer type, definitions  become  important. Linux =

  is a kernel that performs a job similar to command.com in DOS or
  windows.exe in that OS. The number that is assigned to it is not
  arbitrary, it gives you information about it's current state of
  development. The most recent distributions are using the 2.6.xx kernel.
      Anyone from an individual to a multinational corporation may take
  that kernel and add a file system, window manager, package manager,
  productive programs, etc. and create a distribution. The number assigned
  to a distribution is more arbitrary and can not be used to compare one
  distro to another. For example, Mepis 6.0 may be using a newer kernel
  than SuSE 9.3. I am guessing you installed SuSE 10.1.
      Welcome to LinuxBasics and I hope you found this of some value.

  Steve Kist
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