I would like to help improving Ubuntu

Jordan Mantha mantha at ubuntu.com
Mon Aug 13 23:07:13 UTC 2007


On 8/13/07, Michael Price <m_price04 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Instead of using VMWare you can use VirtualBox. I
> found it much easier
> to install then VMWare.

VirtualBox is indeed much easier to install, but I've had problems
with it not booting Ubuntu. Also, you don't have to pay for VMWare,
it's just non-free so it's in Canonical's commercial repo.

-Jordan

> Fatsheep wrote:
> > My story is similar to Bui's.  I installed Ubuntu
> about a year ago and
> > I've loved it ever since.  It got me into
> programming as well.  I've
> > helped people out on the forums and I maintain the
> "Firefox Widgets"
> > sticky but besides that I haven't gotten as involved
> as I would like.
> > I have downloaded trunk via subversion and have
> browsed some of it
> > with yelp but what I am confused on is what content
> gets put where?  I
> > know some of it is under System > Help and Support
> and some is on the
> > website but I don't understand the hierarchy of
> trunk.
> >
> > Also, I don't have Gutsy and I don't really want to
> risk my main
> > partition on an unstable version.  However, I do
> have space on my hard
> > disk.  Is there an easy to follow guide on using
> VMWare to install
> > Gutsy so I can access it with VMWare from Feisty?  I
> looked on the
> > Wiki but it said I needed the paid version of VMWare
> for feisty.  :(
> >
> > Anyways, let me know if I can do anything to help
> and please point me
> > to documentation to explain any of my above
> questions.  Thanks,
> >
> > - fatsheep
> >
> > On 8/13/07, * Phil Bull* <philbull at gmail.com
> > <mailto:philbull at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Bui,
> >
> >     On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 10:35 +0700, BUI XUAN
> DUONG wrote:
> >     > My name is BUI XUAN DUONG, 25 year old, I am
> from Vietnam. I started
> >     > using Ubuntu for nearly haft a year, and I
> think that is the best
> >     > thing I can receive for free. I feel myself
> must do something to
> >     give
> >     > back - to thank to all of you who pay many
> time and effort to create
> >     > and maintain this very nice project.
> >     >
> >     > Can I have a help: how can I join and do
> something to involve with
> >     > you? I read about DocuMENTORS, and I would
> like to have some guide
> >     > about it.
> >
> >     Sorry for the delay in replying, and thanks for
> getting in touch!
> >
> >     How would you like to get involved with the
> documentation? Do you
> >     have
> >     any specific interests that you would like to
> work on?
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >
> >     Phil
> >
> >     --
> >     Phil Bull
> >     http://www.launchpad.net/people/philbull
> >
> >
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