2004-07-31, 06:53 PM
1.+3. You may look at yum ('man yum'), the default Fedora update manager. In order to command an update you run 'yum update'. You should specify faster sources though in '/etc/yum.conf' because the default mirrors are kinda slow.
2. Have a look at: [/url][url=http://www.freeos.com/articles/3102/]http://www.freeos.com/articles/3102/
4. We have a small table of Windows/Linux equivalents at www.linux-noob.com/wle, check it out.
5. The kernel is the core of your linux system, also Windows has a kernel. The Fedora default kernel should suit most things though if ya wanna minimize the size of the kernel or disable stuff you don't need you can rebuild the kernel. Not the easiest thing for noobs though.
z0ny