Newbie - Introduction

[Faaiez Sallie <faaiez at ozemail dot com dot au>]

Peace be unto one and all

My name is Faaiez.
I am new to the world of programming in Linux and thought it would be a
good learning opportunity for myself to register on to a project which I
can provide some assistance. I currently work as a systems analyst and
have programmed in C about 8 years ago. As you can imagine my C is
rusty. So to help me on the way. 

1) Are there any IDE tools that one can use or can anyone recommend a
good one, or is this not recommended.

2) I've tried to login to CVS but get the following error:
	no such user mun in CVSROOT/passwd (mun = my user name)

Regards

Faaiez