<The only one what?

the only company

What's "ID"?

thats the name of the ompany. . . they did doom and Doom2 as well.

What's a binary?

linux speak for .exe files. They are the raw CPU instructions. However while you may be using a similar CPU among windows and linux the libraries and system calls are different so an .exe file for windows wille not run under linux.

however, Linux is reliant on source code, as it supports many architectures. in linux often times you just get the source code to various programs and you build them on your computer (there are standard scripts that makes this really easy), beause the binaries would be different between a Dec alpha CPU and a pentium3. You don't have to worry about this with windows because they ONLY support the pentium x86 architecture. In linux you could have a pentium system and have complete program interchangeability with a mac system if only you have the source code. Its the great thing about linux ;-)

Maybe you could just suggest a good book?

Hmmm. . . let see. . . you are right you WILL need a book. I started out with a monster called 'linux network administration: a begginers guide". it was huge and I simply turned to the section I needed info about. it came with a scaled down redhat linux version with it. I had a static IP at the time and wanted to run a server with @home so it was the perfect things, plus I was going to network the house with it. . . the book was ok, but I ended up going to usenet and comp.os.linux.networking for many of the questions.

Thats probably the best place for information, if you can stand the wait and condescending attitude of some of the geeks on there.

There may be a better book out htere, I suggest just taking a look at a B&N sometimes. Nowadays everything can probably be done through xwindows (the GUI for linux) . . . I had a load of old UNIX system 5 primers laying around so I learned the commandline from them and still drop down to that level. . .besides the xwindows installed by redhat is too buggy for me to rely too much on. so this is why I suggest using mandrake or some otehr linux distro.

-Justin Kelly