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Ubuntu
Home Page - This is the source for Ubuntu, the most popular flavor
of Linux distribution. You can download a Ubuntu Live CD image or
request them to send you a free Ubuntu Live CD. With the Live CD you
are able to boot from it and try Ubuntu without installing anything.
This way you can try it and see if it works with your hardware, and decide if
you like it. If you do like it, it installs in a dual boot with Windows
very
easily, as the Live CD takes care of creating a partition to install to
on your drive, and installs the boot manager that allows you to select
which operating system you want to use each time. The Ubuntu Live CD is also useful for surfing the net completely safe as nothing can write to the CD, so there is no risk when booted from it. The Ubuntu Live CD has many programs pre-installed on it including a graphical partition manager called GParted which is very easy to use. I recommend using GParted to add a root and swap partition to your drive for Ubuntu to install to as the guided partitioning that happens during the install hogs quite a bit of disk space for itself. By using GParted first you can control how much of your disk is given over to Ubuntu. Illustrated Dual Boot Site - This site has a lot of information about installing Ubuntu in a dual boot configuration with Windows. They have a pre-install page which shows you where to download and how to verify the usability of your downloaded .iso file as well as other tips for what to do before you install. Lost Password This page outlines two different methods to recover from a lost password in Ubuntu. How to dual boot Windows XP and Linux (with XP installed first) - a step-by-step guide with screenshots - This is APC Magazine and this four page article gives some good tips on installing Ubuntu with Windows XP.Missing Titlebars in Ubuntu Here is a GUI method of restoring your titlebars to your running programs in Ubuntu. You can do it from the command line if you know which window decorator you are running, but this method is a one click solution with your mouse, and doesn't require you to know which window decorator you are running. Throwing the Windows out with the viruses This article has a lot of good historical information about the rise of Unix, BSD, and Linux operating systems, and talks about their advantage over the Windows system. How do I reset my root password? This article tells how to reset your root password on Linux operating systems. System Report Script for Ubuntu - I wrote this script to generate a set of web pages that contain information about your Ubuntu system from commands available at the command line in terminal.Web Site Monitor script for Linux This is a script set I wrote to monitor my web sites to see if they are up, and to be warned when they go down. I'm releasing the package as open source software to the public. Fixing Grub after re-installing Windows This blog post explains exactly how to get Grub working again after you re-install Windows on your dual boot machine. DistroWatch.com This is the site to go to to look up different distributions of Linux and BSD. This site has it all when it comes to Linux related information, including links to podcasts, limks to pages on the latest software packages available, and the latest newsletters about Linux. There is a ranking chart for how popular the different distributions are based on their hits per day. This ranking list has each distribution linked to a page with lots of links to distribution specific information including software package features, and currently available install versions. There are links to a multitude of related sites for each distribution. There is also a page with a very long list of alternative operating systems so if you like experimenting, this is the place to go. Linux Commands This alphabetical index of Linux commands is from the book Linux in a Nutshell, 5th Edition, and has 687 Linux commands listed. You may or may not have all of the commands on your system depending on how many you have installed, and how many originally came with your distribution of Linux. There is also a link to read the book online and one to buy the book on this page. Learning Linux References This page lays out a number of documentation packages that you can install on your system that will help you learn all about Linux. Like this page? Link to it from your own website; just copy/paste this HTML: |
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