[BNM] Getting started with Linux

[delarge]

Wowsers... I installed Ubuntu at the weekend... and what a bundle of joy it
is!
Most tools you need come preinstalled (GIMP, Firefox, CD Rippers) - quite
strange to fire up a PC and see no hint of Windows whatsoever.

It also runs at a good speed on an old old ex-office HP PC - and the only
thing stopping me from installing it on my laptop is a few driver problems
with my wireless card (Linksys WRTG54) - I also have an older Belkin one but
need to install a Windows-mirroring type program to install drivers...

(http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Ubuntu)

One thing I am still in the dark about though is all this command
business... people say I ran this command, that command, but I don't see a
prompt to run these... (what a newbie)

Another Q - do I need to install Apache etc. to run Ubunti as a server? Does
it have some server business already installed on it - or should I grab
XAMMP for Linux?
(http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html)

Big thanks!
--
Paul



On 3/2/06, Tom Coady <tom.coady at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/2/06, delarge <delargerock at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Looks like its Ubuntu... (what a satisfying word
>
>
> The name of the distribution comes from the South
> African<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African>concept of
> *Ubuntu <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28ideology%29>* — roughly,
> "humanity towards others" according to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Linux
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