Hello Everyone

[Alphapoint]

Hello My Name is Alaa
Am a New User for this Forum ... and also a new user For Linux , Am using Red Hat 5 for now ,

i Work As ORACLE Database Administrator for one year till now , and i found that in My Work , i have to be Able to use Linux
And to Know How to use an IBM - AIX UNIX & HP-UNIX & SUN Machines ..

And the Big Problem is (( I am a Windows User ))
But Am entering the Real World now , the world of Linx & UNIX and i hope to fine all the help i need here from the Nice experts people whom always like to help the beginner users like me .

and as a first Question , i want to Play MP3 , and to ply Video on my Red Hat 5 OS ... But i dont know " ANYTHING AT ALL" and where and how to start So Please Help me in an easy way ....pleeeeeeeeeeeeease .

Regards
Alaa

[Mudgen]

VLC will play your mp3 and video files. Install/activate the RPMForge repo and
yum install vlc

Google "rhel5 rpmforge" for articles about how to install the repo.

[MikeTbob]

Hello and Welcome to the forums.

[ramin.honary]

Hello Alaa, welcome!

It really is unfortunate, the way Microsoft has conquered the entire desktop computer world and in ways that are anti-competitive and harmful to progress. Fortunately, Linux, and UNIX-like systems are the best and most common systems outside of the desktop computer world. Now you know from personal experience how trusting just one corporation (Microsoft) for supplying all of your software is a bad idea. Linux is NOT a corporation -- that is the first big advantage.

The big difference between Linux and Windows is that Windows requires all settings and configuration be done with a graphical user interface (GUI). You may sometimes need to edit the .INI files using Notepad, but most everything is done with RegEdit or Control Panels. This is NOT true for Linux. Although GUI's for Linux exist and are quite as nice as Windows, a Linux professional will do everything with a computer language. Once you learn the various Linux languages, you will become very comfortable using Linux.

The most important language is "Bash". Bash is an interpreted scripting language, and most of the system is controlled with various Bash scripts, or with an interactive Bash command line interface (CLI) over a virtual terminal.

Another important language is "Regular Expressions" (Regex's), which are used by several bash command programs, including Grep, Sed, and Awk. Awk is also a simple language which is important to learn.

Learn how to use "pipes" and "redirection".

Learn to use Vi. Linux uses "Vim", which is a newer, open-source version of "Vi", but its controls are the same. This is the most common text editor in UNIX-like systems. At first it is difficult, but learning this makes your life much easier in the Linux world.

Always use the "man" command. Become familiar with the various programs in the system using "man". When using "Bash", every program is a command. All commands are stored in "/bin" and "/usr/bin". There may be hundreds of commands. If you type "ls /usr/bin | less" you will see all the commands on the computer (press 'q' to exit the list). Use "man" to read the manual on all of these commands. For example, if you are curious about a command called "gcc", type "man sed" or "man grep", and it will explain a little bit about what the Sed or Grep command programs are. You can then look up more information on Google or Yahoo.

Linux was never designed to be controlled exclusively with a GUI. All settings and configurations are done with "config" files, or files that end with "rc", for example, ".inputrc", or ".bashrc", or ".exrc", or "/etc/rc.d". These are a bit like the Windows .INI files, but the syntax is slightly different. It is easy enough to understand.

The Linux "registry" for the whole system is the "/etc" directory and is protected so that only the system administrator can change it.

The Linux system has multiple users and one system administrator called "root". It is not safe to log-in as root. Instead, log in as a regular user, then use "su root" or "sudo -i" and enter a password into these programs to change into the root user.

Other users each have their own directory under "/home", for example "/home/alaa", and each user directory contains many configuration files as well, which are usually in files whos names start with a dot ".". For example ".bashrc".

Linux files are protected with "permissions." The permissions for each file are stored into the filesystem, and the operating system controls the filesystem as long as the filesystem is attached, so it is very difficult to trick the operating system to change permissions. This is one reason Linux has been so much more secure than Windows until recently when windows started using NTFS which does the same thing.

I hope that is a good introduction for you. And I hope you enjoy learning about Linux.

[Alphapoint]

VLC will play your mp3 and video files. Install/activate the RPMForge repo and
yum install vlc

Google "rhel5 rpmforge" for articles about how to install the repo.

Thank you for replay , and i will try to do Exactly as you said ...

Thanks again
Greeting
Alaa

[Alphapoint]

Hello and Welcome to the forums.

Hello , Thank you my friend ... its so nice to be in such Friendly Environment ..

Thanks
Greeting
Alaa

[Alphapoint]

Hello Alaa, welcome!

It really is unfortunate, the way Microsoft has conquered the entire desktop computer world and in ways that are anti-competitive and harmful to progress. Fortunately, Linux, and UNIX-like systems are the best and most common systems outside of the desktop computer world. Now you know from personal experience how trusting just one corporation (Microsoft) for supplying all of your software is a bad idea. Linux is NOT a corporation -- that is the first big advantage.

The big difference between Linux and Windows is that Windows requires all settings and configuration be done with a graphical user interface (GUI). You may sometimes need to edit the .INI files using Notepad, but most everything is done with RegEdit or Control Panels. This is NOT true for Linux. Although GUI's for Linux exist and are quite as nice as Windows, a Linux professional will do everything with a computer language. Once you learn the various Linux languages, you will become very comfortable using Linux.

Bash is an interpreted scripting language, and most of the system is controlled with various Bash scripts, or with an interactive Bash command line interface (CLI) over a virtual terminal.

Another important language is (Regex's), which are used by several bash command programs, including Grep, Sed, and is also a simple language which is important to learn.

Learn how to use

Learn to use Vi. Linux uses "Vim", which is a newer, open-source version of "Vi", but its controls are the same. This is the most common text editor in UNIX-like systems. At first it is difficult, but learning this makes your life much easier in the Linux world.

Always use the "man" command. Become familiar with the various programs in the system using "man". When using "Bash", every program is a command. All commands are stored in "/bin" and "/usr/bin". There may be hundreds of commands. If you type "ls /usr/bin | less" you will see all the commands on the computer (press 'q' to exit the list). Use "man" to read the manual on all of these commands. For example, if you are curious about a command called "gcc", type "man sed" or "man grep", and it will explain a little bit about what the Sed or Grep command programs are. You can then look up more information on Google or Yahoo.

Linux was never designed to be controlled exclusively with a GUI. All settings and configurations are done with "config" files, or files that end with "rc", for example, ".inputrc", or ".bashrc", or ".exrc", or "/etc/rc.d". These are a bit like the Windows .INI files, but the syntax is slightly different. It is easy enough to understand.

The Linux "registry" for the whole system is the "/etc" directory and is protected so that only the system administrator can change it.

The Linux system has multiple users and one system administrator called "root". It is not safe to log-in as root. Instead, log in as a regular user, then use "su root" or "sudo -i" and enter a password into these programs to change into the root user.

Other users each have their own directory under "/home", for example "/home/alaa", and each user directory contains many configuration files as well, which are usually in files whos names start with a dot ".". For example ".bashrc".

Linux files are protected with "" The permissions for each file are stored into the filesystem, and the operating system controls the filesystem as long as the filesystem is attached, so it is very difficult to trick the operating system to change permissions. This is one reason Linux has been so much more secure than Windows until recently when windows started using NTFS which does the same thing.

I hope that is a good introduction for you. And I hope you enjoy learning about Linux.

First of all thank you for reply my Post , am glade that there some people out there still want to help ,
thank you for the GREAT introduction , thanks for your time ,
and i want to say that everything you said was so much useful for me , and i will try to walk at the path which you give me ,

hope that i can learn from your experiences , and i wish that you will help me and am sure you will

Thank again
Greeting
Alaa

[MASONTX]

Welcome to the forum. Happy to have you join us.

[Alphapoint]

Welcome to the forum. Happy to have you join us.

Thank you , am happy to be here too