ubuntu

I agree with the Kubuntu issue. And those who installed Gnome environment and willing to pass KDE, this is how to install KDE

Code:

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

And yet another great resource for Ubuntu
http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu_dapper

 

I've diagnosed the problem, Unbuntu's CD rom driver does like my cd rom drive and is causing read ahead errors.

I tried Caos and that installed first time, where Unbuntu does'nt even get as far as loading the installer.

 

Some good words and links regarding Ubuntu in this recent article, " Six Things You Didn't Know About Linux: A Beginners' Guide ", (on page 1) here:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=188701144

"Ubuntu also appears to be gaining legitimacy via heavy grass-roots support. User-spawned Web resources include a blog devoted to the distro, a quick-start guide for dummies and a more advanced (how to install anything!) manual. (However, as What PC? points out, despite its funky name, Ubuntu is not noticeably simpler to get going than any other implementation of the OS.)

"Ubuntu has a great back story: Its development was funded by South African Internet entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth as an outgrowth of his efforts to offer improved educational opportunities to his nation's young people.

Also, some good information and links on other Linux distros and Linux in general.

bktII

 

here are some more things you can do with BASH - the command prompt

Ctrl-l this clears the screen (it's a small L)

Ctrl-Shift-n open a new terminal

history this shows your bash history

Ctrl-r another search like google suggest. keep pressing ctrl-r to scroll through older commands if the one you're looking for isn't the first suggested.

Ctrl-c this will close wheatever you are running in terminal. so if you do Ctrl-r and you decide not to run anything do Ctrl-c to get back to a prompt. or you run something and it's taking too long Ctrl-c will close whatever is running.

if ctrl-c doesn't work try :q enter, or just q

pidof name of process find the PID of a process. if you have multiple processes of the same program the lowest number will be the one that's been running longest.

kill -9 PID of process

man name of program, utility or function this is a manual about the process you typed in. it will tell you alot about what the process is and does.

info name of program, utility or function tells you useful things about the program mainly the options to run it

md5sum path to file the md5 of a file

which
whereis
locate
find these all help you find things on the HDD. you can do a man or info to find out more lol

here are some network commands
sudo netstat -apn -l -A inet
sudo netstat -an --inet --inet6
sudo lsof -i

you can use the TAB key to complete words in terminal which is very useful. so you can do this, open a new terminal -
cd D then press the TAB key and esktop/ will automatically appear it works for paths too, like this -
cd /e then press the TAB key and tc/ will be filled in, you can go on like that.


you can use the up and down arrow keys to manually search through your history.

you can also use something called aliases so Ubuntu will remember commands for you. so for those network commands above all i have to type to use them is this -
net
net2
net3

here's a thread about how to get them working
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=161312

here are what mine look like now

alias s='sudo shutdown -h'
alias df='df -h'
alias h='history'
alias sources='sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list'
alias wget='wget -c'
alias d='cd /home/iceni60/Desktop/'
alias duck='du -s -k -c * | sort -rn'

# netstat
alias net='sudo netstat -apn -l -A inet'
alias net2='sudo netstat -an --inet --inet6'
alias net3='sudo lsof -i'

# apt
alias search='apt-cache search'
alias agi='sudo apt-get install'
alias agr='sudo apt-get remove'
alias agu='sudo apt-get update'
alias agg='sudo apt-get upgrade'

# interactive
alias cp='cp -i'
alias mv='mv -i'

# directory navigation aliases
alias ..='cd ..'
alias ...='cd ../..'
alias ....='cd ../../..'
alias .....='cd ../../../..'

# unpacking aliases
alias untarbz2='tar -xjvf'
alias untargz='tar -xzvf'

# display facts of the day
alias today='grep -h -d skip `date +%m/%d` /usr/share/calendar/*'

# move rm to trash
alias rm="mv $@ --target-directory=${HOME}/.Trash"

# some ls aliases
alias l='dir'
alias la='ls -A'
alias lc='ls -CF'
alias ll='ls -l'
alias lsp='ls -p'
alias lss='ls -shax'
alias lst='ls -alt'
alias lst20='ls -alt | head -20'

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