ilikejam

sh is your shell (the command line). You can get to one in a few ways: Press Ctrl-Alt-F2 This gets you to a login shell (it's actually Bash, not sh, but that doesn't matter). You can login there and you'll be able to run your shell scripts (the speedtouchconf.sh file is a shell script). Or Find 'Terminal' or 'xterm' or 'konsole' or something similar in your KDE or Gnome menu. This will give you a small shell inside KDE or Gnome to use from which you can run the scripts. Once you have got yourself a shell by one of the methods above, you can type sh /root/scripts/speedtouchconf.sh (for example). That should run the script. (You'll have to change '/root/scripts' to be whatever directory speedtouchconf.sh is in.) Hope that's some use.

Go here. http://speedtouchconf.sourceforge.net/ It works under RedHat 9, so I don't see why it shouldn't work for RedHat 8 (or any other distro). As for which distro, Mandrake or RedHat are probably good choices if you're new to Linux (Mandrake is based on RedHat anyway). Dave.