Lin-ux perience

Its 2:16 in the morning, and i am sitting at my comp -most of my entires start of like this...i think i should find a new way to say it;

Tonight, my most recent want has been taken care of. i have been looking forward to using Linux for many years now, and when i got a comp of my own, i decided to give it a shot. So asked a friend(BOOTSTRAP BILL) to download Fedora 9 for me.
its a 3.38 Gigs file, and he had the means to do it in good time. Major thanks to him is on record here.
Before going any further i should tell u THIS IS NOT A GUIDE TO INSTALLING FEDORA.
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First after a mad search ,trying endlessly to figure out if my system architecture is i386 or i686 or x86_64, i figured mine was x86_64.
for those who are not sure,
Most systems are i386. that is if u are not using a MAC. a MAC or macintosh has an architecture called PowerPC, or PPC.
Intel Core2 Duo is an x86_64 architecture.
all those pentium 4, 3....etc are i386.

anyway, after having figured that out(i add that wikipedia is the source of all knowldge), i downloaded a torrent file.
a torrent file is used when we do not download directly but from a number of peers who are downloading the same file.

sat down to install it this evening, things weren't exactly how i wanted them to be, ran in to absurd errors that claimed that a corrupt file was downloaded. but all the same, stuff started rolling.
Now i did not know that linux uses 3 seperate partitions.
one is the 'root' the notation is '/' - that is the ROOT directory, where everything is supposed to begin.
it also needs something called a 'swap' partition. when frequently accessed files are present, they are placed in the swap partition. they say the larger the swap the better it is. and the third is '/boot' this is required to store the boot information. and well, the installation is good enough to do this for you, but what kind of a comp science student would i be if i didn't notice all this.

after the installation was done, as if i didn't run into enough problems during the installation, my Windows refused to boot. apparently, i had messed up my boot file.
soon enough i managed to fix that, and now can use both vista and Fedora properly.
Fedora is new to me, and as all new things are- novel to the mind, it is novel, and interesting.
I hope i can figure this out and manage to gain "Extensive knowledge and experience"
All the best to me!