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StealthArcher

Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:07 pm


My first day with Ubuntu.

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At least, the first day where dual-booting is working.

Anything to read, know etc.?


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wtd

Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:22 pm


RE:My first day with Ubuntu.

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Apt, via Synaptic or otherwise, is your friend.


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btiffin

Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:08 pm


Re: My first day with Ubuntu.

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What level of Unix are you at?

There are reams and reams of things to read up on (overwhelming, no one can get through all of it, well maybe our hero, wtd, prolific jealousy inducing git that he is). :)

Very dependant on where you are and where you want to go.  Just getting to grips with the kernel docs can run you years of reading.

I found Kernighan and Pike's the Unix Programming Environment an awesome read, back in the day.  Beautiful companion to the Kernighan and Ritchie C book.

For near freebies, visit a refurb store and pick up an older Ubuntu 900+ pager.  Should run you around 5 bucks for a version 6 release.  If you need bleeding edge, you can always drop 50 or more on the most recent, but I'd try a library copy of a previous release just to see if you like that kind of book.

Googling the web will offer up a plethora of draft and freebie PDF's, and if what I've read (I run Debian) is true, "The Official Ubuntu Book" should be on your distro CD/DVD.

And get used to humming What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong as you learn to forget all about non-transparent panes of glass.  :)

Cheers


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StealthArcher

Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:20 am


Re: My first day with Ubuntu.

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What level of Unix are you at?


Cheers

absolute beginner.


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wtd

Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:29 am


RE:My first day with Ubuntu.

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Open a terminal.  Learn about cd and ls.

Type "man cd" and "man ls" to read the documentation.

Usethese commands to explore the filesystem.


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OneOffDriveByPoster

Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:58 am


Re: My first day with Ubuntu.

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as you learn to forget all about non-transparent panes of glass.  :)
Which question should I ask:
Windows are non-transparent?
or
Windows is non-transparent?


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apomb

Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:20 am


Re: My first day with Ubuntu.

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as you learn to forget all about non-transparent panes of glass.  :)
Which question should I ask:
Windows are non-transparent?
or
Windows is non-transparent?

I think you mean non-opaque ...

and always remember you have a whole [url=http://ubuntuforums.org]community to gather knowledge from as well.


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DemonWasp

Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:51 am


RE:My first day with Ubuntu.

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The man pages are probably your best bet to learn some basic command-line competence. Use "man man" to learn more about using the man (manual) tool.

Also useful in browsing directories:
- pwd (displays current location's path)
- piping to and from files. You won't find it in the man pages, but if you do something like "command > out.txt", then the output of that command will be written to out.txt rather than the console. This can be useful as a beginner if you have a lot of entries in the directory and it would be easier to view them in a text editor (vim, gedit, etc).


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Zeroth

Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:05 am


Re: My first day with Ubuntu.

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I find myself doing a lot of  | less which puts all the info into a scrollable screen I can read at my leisure. 

Okay so:
http://www.killertechtips.com/2008/04/26/five-softwares-to-install-in-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron-recommendation/
http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html