Hi John,
Terminal is just another name for the Command Line Prompt in Windows; some Linux distros call it Console.
But you have a lot more resources in your command path - thousands of commands (Try a Tab+Tab from the Terminal to get a full list.) Also there is Help, Man for manuals, and Info for more info.
You can change Xandros' visual presentation. Just look in the Wikis at EEEuser.com. There is really a wealth of information there for the 701-4g as that was its starting point. The later EEEpcs have gotten more diverse and support for them is not as specific. Also, some of the people that really understood the platform may have moved on and are no longer participating.
I have a copy of "How Linux Works - what every superuser should know" by Brian Ward. I find it an excellent starting point that you likely won't regret buying. I have a lot of other stuff - mostly from O'Reilly, but this one presents it in a sensible and informative way.
At some point, you will begin to understand Xandros and that will likely inspire you to move on. The first 2G partition is untouchable write only, so the only way to add or update programs is to fill the other 2G with updates while leaving the original in place. So space runs out. And you have to rely on an Xandros repository to add things. That seems rather limited when compared to the Ubuntu repositories. Trying to load fron non-Xandros repositories can be daunting from within Xandros.
The really neat thing is that if you greatly mess up the OS, just reboot with F9 and your are purged back to the original image of Xandros. That is great if you let a kid use the machine without supervision.
BTW, from Terminal, you do have to call up Telnet or Putty to get to an RS-232 port.
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Terminal is just another name for the Command Line Prompt in Windows; some Linux distros call it Console.
But you have a lot more resources in your command path - thousands of commands (Try a Tab+Tab from the Terminal to get a full list.) Also there is Help, Man for manuals, and Info for more info.
You can change Xandros' visual presentation. Just look in the Wikis at EEEuser.com. There is really a wealth of information there for the 701-4g as that was its starting point. The later EEEpcs have gotten more diverse and support for them is not as specific. Also, some of the people that really understood the platform may have moved on and are no longer participating.
I have a copy of "How Linux Works - what every superuser should know" by Brian Ward. I find it an excellent starting point that you likely won't regret buying. I have a lot of other stuff - mostly from O'Reilly, but this one presents it in a sensible and informative way.
At some point, you will begin to understand Xandros and that will likely inspire you to move on. The first 2G partition is untouchable write only, so the only way to add or update programs is to fill the other 2G with updates while leaving the original in place. So space runs out. And you have to rely on an Xandros repository to add things. That seems rather limited when compared to the Ubuntu repositories. Trying to load fron non-Xandros repositories can be daunting from within Xandros.
The really neat thing is that if you greatly mess up the OS, just reboot with F9 and your are purged back to the original image of Xandros. That is great if you let a kid use the machine without supervision.
BTW, from Terminal, you do have to call up Telnet or Putty to get to an RS-232 port.