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hi everyone
wife bought me an acer aspire one with linux operating system. fine for going on the net and things like that but downloading is difficult. havent a clue. it s not like windows. i i also want to download a photo program called gimp, but havent a clue. anybody have any idea step by step guide. also there is a newer version of firefox. mine is version 2
any help much appreciated. like i said i dont have a clue about computing or computing/tech talk.
cheeers
 
wouldnt have a clue ksh,
actually just been on system and it says linpus linux lite v 1.0.9
thanks
 
All in Neils link then :)
Whole new learning curve for you, stick with it, you'll get the hang of it.
 
Tried that distro for 1 day, couldn't get my wireless internet working with it yet I can get it to work with Fedora which its based on :confused:
 
THIS PAGE will come in handy for you, any programs you used in windows you should be able to find its equivalent on there, when you find it, go to your package manager and do a search and install it from there, if it's not in there give us a shout on here and someone will help with other ways of installing it.
 
Neil said:
But do you really learn anything by typing stuff into the cli from a website.

It looks like I will have fun getting Ubuntu to work on my Samsung NC10 Ubuntu on the Samsung NC10
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Depends if you take notice of what your typing, a good starting place for anyone trying Linux are the terminal tutorials, I learnt a lot from browsing and trying things from them, don't need to do it though, dare say you can manage perfectly well without it, I wanted to learn some of it though.
 
I have been playing with Ubuntu on a couple of PC's I set up at work. The whole package manager instead of just download and install seams odd to me
 
A little different I got to admit but its all there in the same place, you don't have to use it do you, just a sure way of knowing what you install is tried and tested, not just installing any old junk that won't work. Theres an option in Windows, ADD/remove programs, we've all used it for removing, how many use it for adding?? not too many - just the same for using the package manager :)
 
Neil said:
I have been playing with Ubuntu on a couple of PC's I set up at work. The whole package manager instead of just download and install seams odd to me
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You'd rather have any old software company packaging dodgy dlls that are also used by lots of other programs with zero integration testing?

One thing about Linux package manager is that it completely manages all the shared libraries in a sensible maner. YOu also haven't got any of this "whats a decent program to do X'. Go into package manager and all programs are listed with their descriptions that is fully searchable. No messing with CD's or anything, totally up to date, properly tested, organised.
 
Which is great until you find yourself on a PC without internet ability like I was.
 
so the network drivers weren't automagically installed........................

Is this your NC10 we are talking about?
 
entwisi said:
so the network drivers weren't automagically installed........................

Is this your NC10 we are talking about?
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nope a couple of IBM netvista PC's I set up at work. No net connection as they were intended to sit on an internal network we setup in the workshop as a test bed only.
 
Neil said:
I have been playing with Ubuntu on a couple of PC's I set up at work. The whole package manager instead of just download and install seams odd to me
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I miss this part of Ubuntu massively when I'm not using it.

Sudo apt-get install program

Fantastic quick and simple way of downloading programs! Love it. Providing it's well known package they're available offline from the CD too.
 
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