Installed CentOS, now what?

[brittonal]

I have installed CentOS with a / partition and a swap partition and now I'm not sure where to go. After I installed Windows, I usually start installing Windows updates and then drivers.

Should I do this now? If so, how do I do it and how do I do it via the command line?

I'm completely new to Linux so please explain things in noob.


Thanks!

[jayd512]

That depends entirely on what you intend to do with your system.
Server? Workstation?
General usage Desktop?
Mind you, running all updates is a good idea. So...
What ya got in mind?

[brittonal]

Just a general use desktop. I'm also just doing this to learn linux and figure out how to do things via command line. After I toy with this for a while and kind of get the hang of things, I may actually use a different OS that may be more suitable for this T420.

So I figured out that "su yum update" updated my the OS? I ran it anyways so I figured that's what it did. So how about drivers? In windows, I'm updating video drivers, sound, adding software for my mouse, chipset drivers. I guess having a device manager helps with that too but I don't know if linux has anything like that.

[jayd512]

In Windows, you update everything separately. Not so in Linux.
yum update does it all for you... drivers, codecs, browser updates...
It's gonna make you kinda lazy after a bit

The only thing you will have to worry about is anything that you install outside of the package manager (yum)

[atreyu]

You can check out the program hal-device-manager if you want a graphical display of your devices. If you do not find the program, it is part of the hal-gnome package.

[brittonal]

Ok, so I have done a "yum update" so now what? I know I have keys on my keyboard that don't work. Lenovo uses their thinkvantage software and my function keys for battery, wifi and display dont work.

[atreyu]

I've gotten those to work in the past, but don't remember what I did...try here.