Hey all--

Recently I posted a thread in which I announced that I had gotten Red Hat Linux and was wondering where if anyone knew any good sites to learn about it. The responses were great but I have two questions reguarding instalation and such...

-- When I click on the IRC (which was where I was going to ask this next question) it tells me to download the Java plug-in for Linux, no problem, I did and I was pretty sure it was the right one here at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download.html. I downloaded it but when I went to open it I just got a text file. Is there some kind of terminal command that I need to excecute to get the actual program to run??? Note: I am completly new linux user, even though I've read up a bit on it before I got Red Hat 8.0, it seems like none of that is helping...(which is the frustrating part.)

-- A simaller question reguarding audio driver/ sound card set-up. First off I'll give ya the info you might need to help...
When I go to sound card setup it tells me that it recognizes it but at the bottom it says "disabled." Is there anyway I can enable it??? Also when I downloaded an audio driver from asus.com for linux and I unzip the package, it gives me another one to unzip and then gives me an error when I try to extract the 2nd one??? I don't know why this happens.

Any help reguarding this issue is greatly appreciated as always. I just wanted to also say thank you to all the people that have showed me the ropes so far in Linux and have helped me on the road to exploring ths OS (thanks).

--Peace