From jellyfish_jvss2002 at yahoo.com.sg Tue Feb 6 02:24:36 2007 From: jellyfish_jvss2002 at yahoo.com.sg (jelly fish) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:24:36 +0800 (CST) Subject: [Ubuntu-SG] Hello Everyone Message-ID: <840457.87231.qm@web30813.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi, everyone from SG. I finally installed Ubuntu on my laptop now. As for my linux experience, had used a few distro before but in terms of technical knowledge it's still not good enough. So starting with Ubuntu I hope to learn as much as I can .--- . .-.. .-.. -.-- ..-. .. ... .... PM me if you need help with spyware There Is No Patch For Ignorance :) Bleeding Snort Lp-Analysts HJT Analysts VMWare File Analysts --------------------------------- Real people. Real questions. Real answers. Share what you know. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kerwin.khu at gmail.com Tue Feb 6 04:19:23 2007 From: kerwin.khu at gmail.com (Kerwin Khu) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 12:19:23 +0800 Subject: [Ubuntu-SG] Hello Everyone In-Reply-To: <840457.87231.qm@web30813.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <840457.87231.qm@web30813.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4a6b38bf0702052019l53eb1576gbb3e7178c1f1a89a@mail.gmail.com> On 2/6/07, jelly fish wrote: > Hi, everyone from SG. > I finally installed Ubuntu on my laptop now. > As for my linux experience, had used a few distro before but in terms of technical knowledge it's still not good enough. > > So starting with Ubuntu I hope to learn as much as I can > That's great! Billy is the resident expert on the list, but I'm sure everyone here will be willing to help out with suggestions and advice. When I switched from M$ to using Ubuntu/Kubuntu full-time at home, I found the Ubuntu Guide and Ubuntu Forums in particular to be great resources http://www.ubuntuguide.org/ http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ Hope you'll find no need to boot into M$ in the near future ;) Regards, Kerwin From rykel at ibo21.org Tue Feb 6 08:04:41 2007 From: rykel at ibo21.org (Rykel) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 16:04:41 +0800 Subject: [Ubuntu-SG] Hello Everyone In-Reply-To: <4a6b38bf0702052019l53eb1576gbb3e7178c1f1a89a@mail.gmail.com> References: <840457.87231.qm@web30813.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4a6b38bf0702052019l53eb1576gbb3e7178c1f1a89a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Welcome to ubuntu SG. I am a long time Ubuntu user, currently on Dapper Drake version (switched back from Edgy Eft version), so if you need any info or help that is more specific to local issues (such as Hanyu Pinyin), just post here or on Ubuntuforums. Cheers. -- Best Regards, Rykel Gizmo.Skype.GTalk/Yahoo/MSN.eBay.GVideo: rykel98 Hubbing http://www.OpenSG.info ::: Every Friday in Singapore ::: On 2/6/07, Kerwin Khu wrote: > > On 2/6/07, jelly fish wrote: > > Hi, everyone from SG. > > I finally installed Ubuntu on my laptop now. > > As for my linux experience, had used a few distro before but in terms of > technical knowledge it's still not good enough. > > > > So starting with Ubuntu I hope to learn as much as I can > > > > That's great! > > Billy is the resident expert on the list, but I'm sure everyone here > will be willing to help out with suggestions and advice. > > When I switched from M$ to using Ubuntu/Kubuntu full-time at home, I > found the Ubuntu Guide and Ubuntu Forums in particular to be great > resources > > http://www.ubuntuguide.org/ > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ > > Hope you'll find no need to boot into M$ in the near future ;) > > Regards, > Kerwin > > -- > Ubuntu-SG mailing list > Ubuntu-SG at lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-sg > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From billy at ubuntu.sg Tue Feb 6 13:51:52 2007 From: billy at ubuntu.sg (Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 21:51:52 +0800 Subject: [Ubuntu-SG] Hello Everyone In-Reply-To: <4a6b38bf0702052019l53eb1576gbb3e7178c1f1a89a@mail.gmail.com> References: <840457.87231.qm@web30813.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4a6b38bf0702052019l53eb1576gbb3e7178c1f1a89a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <200702062151.52851.billy@ubuntu.sg> On Tuesday 06 February 2007 12:19, Kerwin Khu wrote: Oh haaaa ... me not that expert really ... just that I used Linux for about 9 years now so I just made more mistakes than for someone who just started. So jellyfish , can tell us which distros have you used before trying out Ubuntu ?? And what differences do you see ? Btw , tried FreeBSD yet ? regards billy PS : Welcome to our normally very quiet mailing list dude :P > On 2/6/07, jelly fish wrote: > > Hi, everyone from SG. > > I finally installed Ubuntu on my laptop now. > > As for my linux experience, had used a few distro before but in terms of > > technical knowledge it's still not good enough. > > > > So starting with Ubuntu I hope to learn as much as I can > > That's great! > > Billy is the resident expert on the list, but I'm sure everyone here > will be willing to help out with suggestions and advice. > > When I switched from M$ to using Ubuntu/Kubuntu full-time at home, I > found the Ubuntu Guide and Ubuntu Forums in particular to be great > resources > > http://www.ubuntuguide.org/ > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ > > Hope you'll find no need to boot into M$ in the near future ;) > > Regards, > Kerwin -- Singapore Ubuntu Team http://ubuntu.sg From jellyfish_jvss2002 at yahoo.com.sg Tue Feb 6 15:08:45 2007 From: jellyfish_jvss2002 at yahoo.com.sg (jelly fish) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 23:08:45 +0800 (CST) Subject: [Ubuntu-SG] Hello Everyone In-Reply-To: <200702062151.52851.billy@ubuntu.sg> Message-ID: <922756.19874.qm@web30811.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I have tired Red Hat 9, Fedora Core, Turbo Linux, Xandros, BackTrack & FreeBSD Out of this, Red Hat & Fedora I had used it for LAMP. Linux has improved alot this few yrs, dependencies hell isn't so scary anymore. Initially I was deciding whether to use Gentoo, Ubuntu or openSUSE, but I heard/read alot of things about Ubuntu so i decided to put it in. For now I personally feel that Ubuntu users seem to be more friendly? and there like more resources available? "Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint" wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007 12:19, Kerwin Khu wrote: Oh haaaa ... me not that expert really ... just that I used Linux for about 9 years now so I just made more mistakes than for someone who just started. So jellyfish , can tell us which distros have you used before trying out Ubuntu ?? And what differences do you see ? Btw , tried FreeBSD yet ? regards billy PS : Welcome to our normally very quiet mailing list dude :P > On 2/6/07, jelly fish wrote: > > Hi, everyone from SG. > > I finally installed Ubuntu on my laptop now. > > As for my linux experience, had used a few distro before but in terms of > > technical knowledge it's still not good enough. > > > > So starting with Ubuntu I hope to learn as much as I can > > That's great! > > Billy is the resident expert on the list, but I'm sure everyone here > will be willing to help out with suggestions and advice. > > When I switched from M$ to using Ubuntu/Kubuntu full-time at home, I > found the Ubuntu Guide and Ubuntu Forums in particular to be great > resources > > http://www.ubuntuguide.org/ > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ > > Hope you'll find no need to boot into M$ in the near future ;) > > Regards, > Kerwin -- Singapore Ubuntu Team http://ubuntu.sg .--- . .-.. .-.. -.-- ..-. .. ... .... PM me if you need help with spyware There Is No Patch For Ignorance :) Bleeding Snort Lp-Analysts HJT Analysts VMWare File Analysts --------------------------------- Real people. Real questions. Real answers. Share what you know. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From billy at ubuntu.sg Wed Feb 7 03:27:10 2007 From: billy at ubuntu.sg (Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:27:10 +0800 Subject: [Ubuntu-SG] Hello Everyone In-Reply-To: <922756.19874.qm@web30811.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <922756.19874.qm@web30811.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <200702071127.10461.billy@ubuntu.sg> On Tuesday 06 February 2007 23:08, jelly fish wrote: > I have tired Red Hat 9, Fedora Core, Turbo Linux, Xandros, BackTrack & > FreeBSD Out of this, Red Hat & Fedora I had used it for LAMP. Wow ... thats a lot of systems ... opensolaris ? :P > > Linux has improved alot this few yrs, dependencies hell isn't so scary > anymore. It hasn't been since I moved to Ubuntu ... three cheers for apt-get!! > > Initially I was deciding whether to use Gentoo, Ubuntu or openSUSE, but I > heard/read alot of things about Ubuntu so i decided to put it in. OpenSUSE does have something Ubuntu doesn't ... yast + apparmor. If you havn't seen them , pls check them out. > > For now I personally feel that Ubuntu users seem to be more friendly? and > there like more resources available? There are a few reasons really ... Ubuntu has best of both worlds ... bleeding edge distro like fedora with stability of a debian-based distro and of course the fact that Canonical ship free CDs worldwide helps alot :P I personally do know a gentoo developer , whose name is in official gentoo developers page on gentoo.org , who moved to Ubuntu. whee!!! regards billy > > "Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint" wrote: On Tuesday 06 > February 2007 12:19, Kerwin Khu wrote: > > Oh haaaa ... me not that expert really ... just that I used Linux for about > 9 years now so I just made more mistakes than for someone who just started. > So jellyfish , can tell us which distros have you used before trying out > Ubuntu ?? And what differences do you see ? Btw , tried FreeBSD yet ? > > regards > billy > > PS : Welcome to our normally very quiet mailing list dude :P > > > On 2/6/07, jelly fish wrote: > > > Hi, everyone from SG. > > > I finally installed Ubuntu on my laptop now. > > > As for my linux experience, had used a few distro before but in terms > > > of technical knowledge it's still not good enough. > > > > > > So starting with Ubuntu I hope to learn as much as I can > > > > That's great! > > > > Billy is the resident expert on the list, but I'm sure everyone here > > will be willing to help out with suggestions and advice. > > > > When I switched from M$ to using Ubuntu/Kubuntu full-time at home, I > > found the Ubuntu Guide and Ubuntu Forums in particular to be great > > resources > > > > http://www.ubuntuguide.org/ > > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ > > > > Hope you'll find no need to boot into M$ in the near future ;) > > > > Regards, > > Kerwin -- Singapore Ubuntu Team http://ubuntu.sg From jellyfish_jvss2002 at yahoo.com.sg Thu Feb 8 00:32:33 2007 From: jellyfish_jvss2002 at yahoo.com.sg (jelly fish) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 08:32:33 +0800 (CST) Subject: [Ubuntu-SG] Hello Everyone In-Reply-To: <200702071127.10461.billy@ubuntu.sg> Message-ID: <659644.13376.qm@web30801.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sure once I had some spare time i try out opensolaris, but would it had any hardware compatibility issue? "Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint" wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007 23:08, jelly fish wrote: > I have tired Red Hat 9, Fedora Core, Turbo Linux, Xandros, BackTrack & > FreeBSD Out of this, Red Hat & Fedora I had used it for LAMP. Wow ... thats a lot of systems ... opensolaris ? :P > > Linux has improved alot this few yrs, dependencies hell isn't so scary > anymore. It hasn't been since I moved to Ubuntu ... three cheers for apt-get!! > > Initially I was deciding whether to use Gentoo, Ubuntu or openSUSE, but I > heard/read alot of things about Ubuntu so i decided to put it in. OpenSUSE does have something Ubuntu doesn't ... yast + apparmor. If you havn't seen them , pls check them out. > > For now I personally feel that Ubuntu users seem to be more friendly? and > there like more resources available? There are a few reasons really ... Ubuntu has best of both worlds ... bleeding edge distro like fedora with stability of a debian-based distro and of course the fact that Canonical ship free CDs worldwide helps alot :P I personally do know a gentoo developer , whose name is in official gentoo developers page on gentoo.org , who moved to Ubuntu. whee!!! regards billy > > "Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint" wrote: On Tuesday 06 > February 2007 12:19, Kerwin Khu wrote: > > Oh haaaa ... me not that expert really ... just that I used Linux for about > 9 years now so I just made more mistakes than for someone who just started. > So jellyfish , can tell us which distros have you used before trying out > Ubuntu ?? And what differences do you see ? Btw , tried FreeBSD yet ? > > regards > billy > > PS : Welcome to our normally very quiet mailing list dude :P > > > On 2/6/07, jelly fish wrote: > > > Hi, everyone from SG. > > > I finally installed Ubuntu on my laptop now. > > > As for my linux experience, had used a few distro before but in terms > > > of technical knowledge it's still not good enough. > > > > > > So starting with Ubuntu I hope to learn as much as I can > > > > That's great! > > > > Billy is the resident expert on the list, but I'm sure everyone here > > will be willing to help out with suggestions and advice. > > > > When I switched from M$ to using Ubuntu/Kubuntu full-time at home, I > > found the Ubuntu Guide and Ubuntu Forums in particular to be great > > resources > > > > http://www.ubuntuguide.org/ > > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ > > > > Hope you'll find no need to boot into M$ in the near future ;) > > > > Regards, > > Kerwin -- Singapore Ubuntu Team http://ubuntu.sg .--- . .-.. .-.. -.-- ..-. .. ... .... PM me if you need help with spyware There Is No Patch For Ignorance :) Bleeding Snort Lp-Analysts HJT Analysts VMWare File Analysts --------------------------------- Real people. Real questions. Real answers. Share what you know. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From billy at ubuntu.sg Thu Feb 8 02:10:56 2007 From: billy at ubuntu.sg (Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:10:56 +0800 Subject: [Ubuntu-SG] Hello Everyone In-Reply-To: <659644.13376.qm@web30801.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <659644.13376.qm@web30801.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <200702081010.56709.billy@ubuntu.sg> On Thursday 08 February 2007 08:32, jelly fish wrote: > Sure once I had some spare time i try out opensolaris, but would it had any > hardware compatibility issue? Yup , Solaris does have pretty small range of hardwares .. just like mac .. but also just like mac , on its own hardware , its great. I remember playing with it a year or so ago at work ... almost all the admin programs are in java .. haaaaa regards billy > > "Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint" wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007 23:08, jelly fish wrote: > > I have tired Red Hat 9, Fedora Core, Turbo Linux, Xandros, BackTrack & > > FreeBSD Out of this, Red Hat & Fedora I had used it for LAMP. > > Wow ... thats a lot of systems ... opensolaris ? :P > > > Linux has improved alot this few yrs, dependencies hell isn't so scary > > anymore. > > It hasn't been since I moved to Ubuntu ... three cheers for apt-get!! > > > Initially I was deciding whether to use Gentoo, Ubuntu or openSUSE, but I > > heard/read alot of things about Ubuntu so i decided to put it in. > > OpenSUSE does have something Ubuntu doesn't ... yast + apparmor. If you > havn't seen them , pls check them out. > > > For now I personally feel that Ubuntu users seem to be more friendly? and > > there like more resources available? > > There are a few reasons really ... Ubuntu has best of both worlds ... > bleeding edge distro like fedora with stability of a debian-based distro > and of course the fact that Canonical ship free CDs worldwide helps alot :P > I personally do know a gentoo developer , whose name is in official gentoo > developers page on gentoo.org , who moved to Ubuntu. whee!!! > > regards > billy > > > "Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint" wrote: On Tuesday 06 > > February 2007 12:19, Kerwin Khu wrote: > > > > Oh haaaa ... me not that expert really ... just that I used Linux for > > about 9 years now so I just made more mistakes than for someone who just > > started. So jellyfish , can tell us which distros have you used before > > trying out Ubuntu ?? And what differences do you see ? Btw , tried > > FreeBSD yet ? > > > > regards > > billy > > > > PS : Welcome to our normally very quiet mailing list dude :P > > > > > On 2/6/07, jelly fish wrote: > > > > Hi, everyone from SG. > > > > I finally installed Ubuntu on my laptop now. > > > > As for my linux experience, had used a few distro before but in terms > > > > of technical knowledge it's still not good enough. > > > > > > > > So starting with Ubuntu I hope to learn as much as I can > > > > > > That's great! > > > > > > Billy is the resident expert on the list, but I'm sure everyone here > > > will be willing to help out with suggestions and advice. > > > > > > When I switched from M$ to using Ubuntu/Kubuntu full-time at home, I > > > found the Ubuntu Guide and Ubuntu Forums in particular to be great > > > resources > > > > > > http://www.ubuntuguide.org/ > > > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ > > > > > > Hope you'll find no need to boot into M$ in the near future ;) > > > > > > Regards, > > > Kerwin -- Singapore Ubuntu Team http://ubuntu.sg