On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:20:49 -0700 Howard Kiyuna <<a href="mailto:howard@hopetech.org">howard@hopetech.org</a>> wrote: ... > I recently bought the HP mini's with "mi" on it. The command line is gone (not that I would know how to use it...) and I tried to add software and > most of the tabs such as "education" are blank. > > HP says that's the way it is. I have access the the Touchsmart design team but I didn't want to bother them with this one. > > Can I add the edubuntu software without doing a full install of edubuntu. If I can keep "mi" I would like to for now. Have you joined the edubuntu-users mailing list ? I subscribe to it and look forward to seeing you there, if you care to. Several ways to do this. Easiest is to "System -> Administration -> Synaptic Packet Manager" - click on Search, search for edubuntu, in the search bar enter Edubuntu, and click Search. Then you can choose what you want. Or You can look at Applications, then Add/Remove, you should see an education section there. To adjust the menu, you can go to System -> Preferences -> Main Menu - and decide what shows up. It can be a little intimidating to use the command line, but when you see how it really can save time, you might want to get into it. regards, Daniel Villarreal P.S. I'm in the process of putting up a new web site and it will have screen captures of the edubuntu installation parameters. Here's some screen captures here that might help you. I'm hoping to have web hosting very soon, so this is temporary for now... <a href="http://home.cogeco.ca/~youcanlinux/">http://home.cogeco.ca/~youcanlinux/</a>