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If you created only the root account, you can log in there as root. After you enter the username and password, you find yourself at the screenshown in Figure 20-2, which just happens to be the second spot where peopleget worried. If you see this screen, you have not only booted properly intoLinux, but you re also logged in and using the machine! Give yourself a goodpat on the back. What do you do from here? Anything you want. Surf through this book forcommands you want to run. Type startxto start up the GUI. If you didn tinstall any GUI (which means you selected a minimal install option with nographical interface, or you actually unselected graphics), you may want toreinstall, or you ll have to add all the tools by hand (which is not a quick job!) Figure 20-2: Logged in at the Linux com- mand line. Figure 20-1: A Linuxcommand- line loginprompt. 374Part V:The Part of Tens