Mac OS X terminal commands
First off, Terminal is Mac OS X’s version of Konsole from Linux, or Command Prompt from Windoze. It is located in /Applications/Utilities, down at the bottom. To open it, double click it.
Info about Root
On UNIX based systems such as Mac OS X or Linux, root is the main user for the computer, which has access to *everything*. In other words, this is the System Administrator account, which lets you do maintenance, etc.
