UBUNTU: Introduction

[Paul Bartell]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Arnie Techavimol <techfam5 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I just want to introduce myself. My name is Arnie, I am 14 years old and a
> freshmen in highschool. I run a small site called
> http://thehackersjournal.tk which specializes in computer tutorials. Over
> the past year my interest in the open source community has increased and I
> am interesting in contributing to Ubuntu (preferibly testing, since the next
> version of ubuntu will be released in 4 months). I have Ubuntu dual booted
> on my netbook via wubi.
>

Good to see other high school students interested in ubuntu.Testing
and reporting bugs is definetly something ubuntu can use your help
with. Launchpad.net is the bug tracker that is used.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs offers some help. You
can upgrade to the latest testing release by running update-manager
-d. be aware that this is probably somewhat unstable and there could
be lots of bugs.


> I have no idea how everything is set up so it would be nice if I could get
> some simple directions on how to get started (the online directions are
> kinda complicated). Thanks!

try looking around the ubuntu guide
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Karmic. If offers some howtos on
various common things people need to do. Ubuntu uses the APT package
manager with synaptic and other front ends. the wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_management_system might explain
how this kind of system of installing software is different from the
windows way.

Best wishes with using ubuntu.

-- 
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ipsos custodes?": "who shall watch the watchers themselves?" - Juvenal