Installation guide

16 Chapter 1. Getting Started
Unless you have chosen to give your machine its own hostname, which is primarily used in a network
setting, your machine will proabably be called localhost.localdomain.
To log in as root from the console, type root at the login prompt, press [Enter], type the root password
that you chose during installation at the password prompt, and press [Enter]. To log in as a regular
user, type your username at the login prompt, press [Enter], type your password that you selected
when creating the user at the password prompt, and press [Enter].
After logging in, you can type the command startx to start the X Window System graphical inter-
face.
1.3. Graphical Interface
When you installed Red Hat Linux you had the opportunity to install the GNOME desktop environ-
ment, the KDE desktop environment, or both desktops. If you installed both desktops, you were given
the opportunity to choose a default desktop. Once you start the X Window System, you will find a
graphical interface known as a desktop similar to Figure 1-5 in GNOME or Figure 1-6 in KDE.
Figure 1-5. A GNOME Desktop