ubuntu installation

Chris Debenham chris at adebenham.com
Thu Oct 2 09:00:19 BST 2008


If you use the standard ubuntu install it already includes openoffice for
office tasks, along with evince for pdf reading
Evolution is there for mail/calendar and there is pretty much everything
else you need on an average day already installed.
If you want to add anything more you can use the 'add/remove software' menu
item to automatically download and install whatever you want

2008/10/2 Blindraven <blindraven at gmail.com>

> It will comes with everything you need to get started, and is extremely
> easy to install.
> Regarding Microsoft Word, Excell, PDF documents and the rest - Just get
> open office.
>
> You can obtain Open Office here -
> http://download.openoffice.org/other.html  Download the English .deb
>
> For a simple .pdf viewer I'd go KPDF but it's a matter of preference
> really.
>
> I used to use http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/overview.html to get
> myself up and running but there is a  more up to date alternative called
> Ultimatix (which I won't link) but a lot of elitists do not like as as it
> does thing's in a way contrary to how they think things should be done. Even
> if it does not really, except for vastly insignificant minority - do
> anything but save you time and ease the transition process.
>
> your call.
>
> Have fun.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Amos Koh <koh.amos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi there ,
>>
>> I wished to switched from windows XP  to a linux OS.
>> After some googleing , people said ubuntu is the most popular.
>>
>> the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition OS is just one disc.
>> while many others , like Fedora , has 5 to 6 discs.
>>
>>
>> my question is does this one single disc contain all the things i need
>>  for the installation ?
>>
>> i need the normal stuffs like a browser , email , network connection
>> read MS Words , Excel , etc  and PDF files.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
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