[ubuntu-in] New to ubuntu. Bye vista

[Ramnarayan.K]

Hi Manpreet,

Welcome


On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Manpreet Singh on mobile <msvasir at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello all, recently installed ubuntu 10.04 on my lenovo notebook.i must say
> it has given a fresh breath of life to my ailing machine suffering from
> vista !  i realise after getting to run ubuntu that i don.t really need to
> invest in windows and i'm able to pretty much do everything with ubuntu. At
> 2gb ram its really made my computer faster . The boot up is a breeze. Multi
> tasking is excellent. I.m still exploring the tools and software available
> to download. Will appreciate if anyone could send of Must Haves . Seems this
> is going to be a lot of fun. Regards manpreet
>
>
>
Good to hear that there in another Ubuntu fan.

A 2 GB Ubuntu should rock.

Do you have a separate home partition - this makes sure a) your user data is
kept relatively safe from the OS and and needs to upgrade / change b) makes
managing and backing up easier.
To check if you have a separate home open a terminal (Applications
-Accessories -Terminal )
and type
-$ df -h
(the -$ is indicative of the terminal prompt)

in your result you should get something like
$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7              22G   12G  8.2G  60% /
udev                  1.5G  320K  1.5G   1% /dev
none                  1.5G  420K  1.5G   1% /dev/shm
none                  1.5G  220K  1.5G   1% /var/run
none                  1.5G  4.0K  1.5G   1% /var/lock
none                  1.5G     0  1.5G   0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda5              99M   79M   15M  85% /boot
/dev/sda9             165G  112G   45G  72% /home

as you can see the last line shows my /home - which also means its on a
separate partition.

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If you want a good software to manage and access your pics try

Try and install shotwell - its an amazing piece of software
Meet Shotwell - The F-Spot Replacement For Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat"

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/06/meet-shotwell-f-spot-replacement-for.html

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Language

Depending on what other indian language you want to use (type in and / or
log in in ) its quite easy to set up. If you ask आपको कोई एक हाउ टु भेज
देगा।

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These are just a few nice things to make your Ubuntu experience even more
enjoyable

and the best way to get responses is to ask

How about that "Ubuntu - Just Ask"

ram
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