Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04
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From: Mark Warner on 3 May 2010 17:15 Gordon Darling wrote: > http://ubuntu-manual.org/ > > "Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04 is a comprehensive beginners guide for > the Ubuntu operating system. It is written under an open source license > and is free for you to download, read, modify and share. > > The manual will help you become familiar with everyday tasks such as > surfing the web, listening to music and scanning documents. With an > emphasis on easy to follow instructions, it is suitable for all levels of > experience. That's a good resource, Gordon. While it's not my distro of choice, I have to say this latest release has been impressive, based on the test drive I took with it over the weekend. Setting up my old video card (FX5200) for TwinView with my preferred screen resolution spanned across two slightly mismatched LCDs has been problematic with the new xserver-xorg. It's always the first thing I do with a new install. Nearly every recent release from any source has given me fits. This was accomplished in Lucid with a few clicks. The rest is par for the course -- everything Just Works (tm), which is what I'm used to anymore. Of course, I had to tweak and adjust and customize to my taste, but that's what makes it fun -- I can do damn near anything I want with it. And the only time I used the CLI was when it was quicker and easier than clicking through the menu and the program GUI. -- Mark Warner ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: Gordon Darling on 3 May 2010 19:10 On Mon, 03 May 2010 11:09:22 -0500, HeyBub wrote: > I haven't found a simile for Linux. Keep taking the Kool Aid. -- ox·y·mo·ron n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra or ox·y·mo·rons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in Microsoft Security, Microsoft Help and Microsoft Works.
From: Craig on 3 May 2010 20:38 On 05/03/2010 09:09 AM, HeyBub wrote: > Today, with every tick of the Atomic Clock at the National Bureau of > Standards, several hundred copies of Windows are booting up all around the > planet. > > I haven't found a simile for Linux. Probably because a metaphor is more apt. Try "Linux /is/ Big Ben." The machines serving the Atomic Clock's time run Linux. Hell, all of NIST's web servers run Linux/Apache. Try Netcraft, it's a hoot. <http://uptime.netcraft.com/> fyi, -- -Craig
From: Comrade technomaNge on 3 May 2010 21:55 Bear Bottoms wrote: > > > Get XP or better and you won't have to. > I did, I got Ubuntu. technomaNge -- I am a racist. I am a racist because I think this should be a country of law abiding citizens instead of a country where people with power get away with anything they want. I am a racist because I want the rights guanteed by the constitution to apply to citizens, non-citizens have a limited set of rights that are granted temporarily. If non-citizens break our laws they go home. I am a racist because I want my taxes to pay for strong defence of this country, not abortions or social programs. I am a racist because I believe any politician foolish enough to ask for a poll before taking a position should follow the results of that poll. People didn't want the healthcare reform, it got passed anyway. I am a racist because I believe a politician should live up to campaign promises. I am a racist because I believe public officials must be responsible for their decisions. I am a racist because I believe tolerance means when you say Allah I can hear it as Jesus and when I say Jesus you can hear it as Allah. If it doesn't work that way on your side, you aren't tolerant. I am a racist because I believe all Americans have equal opportunity. Equalizing wealth is not a function of government.
From: Dewey Edwards on 3 May 2010 22:27 On Mon, 03 May 2010 20:55:42 -0500, Comrade technomaNge <piracy(a)microsoft.com> wrote: >Bear Bottoms wrote: >> >> >> Get XP or better and you won't have to. >> > > >I did, I got Ubuntu. > > >technomaNge
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