Console

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Standard Linux Console

[edit] Overview

openSUSE is a very user-friendly distribution, so you generally shouldn't have to use the command line. However, should you wish to, here's a quick explanation.

Under Linux there are GUIs (graphical user interfaces), where you can point and click and drag, and hopefully get work done without first reading lots of documentation. The traditional Unix environment is a CLI (command line interface), where you type commands to tell the computer what to do. That is faster and more powerful, but requires finding out what the commands are.

[edit] Starting a Console

To get a console (or the command line) up do the following:

• If you installed KDE, then hit <Alt>+<F2>, then type konsole
• If you installed GNOME, then hit <Alt>+<F2>, then type gnome-terminal

Note that UNIX/Linux systems are case-sensitive: Hello is completely different to hello.

[edit] Links

• Command Line tutorial: http://linuxcommand.org/
• Basic Commands: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/commands.htm