How to setup DMA on my CD-RW?

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Emmanuel Seyman wrote:

>Welcome to Red Hat Linux,
>

do you mean especially redhat
or
debian, suse, gentoo, yelowdog, ...
freebsd, openbsd, ...

http://www.distrowatch.com/

> an operating system made up of 1400 differents
>parts
>

http://sourceforge.net/
http://freshmeat.net/
http://www.rpmfind.net/
...

> with no standard way of documenting changes.
>There are man pages, info pages, files in /usr/share/doc in a gazillion
>number of formats, releases notes, changelogs, todos, etc. None of this,
>I consider to be "real" documentaion (whatever that is).
>  
>

mostly i can find/get the info i need in a shorter time than eg. in ms-help

no standard way ?
gazillion number of formats ?


can you explain what do you mean ?


rpm -qd <package>
rpm -ql <package>
rpm -qi <package>
...


$ vi /etc/<package>/<package>.conf

$ vi /usr/share/docs/<package>/*.txt
$ lynx /usr/share/docs/<package>/index.html

$ ls /usr/share/man/
$ man <package>
$ man <package>.conf
$ man -k whatyousearch
$ apropos whatyousearch
...

$ vi /home/comp/<package-source>/*

http://www.google.de/linux

http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo
http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/resources/

http://www.tldp.org/
http://www.linux.org/groups/
...


where is your problem ??


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shrek-m