Another Unofficial UbuntuGuide?

Wade Smart wade at wadesmart.com
Mon Nov 7 03:58:14 UTC 2005


11062005 2156 GMT-5

Im totally new to Linux and therefore Ubuntu. This guide saved my butt 
many times because, how else would I know what to do. It hasnt failed me 
yet. And, without being to rude, its a Guide. A guide means - this 
person did it this way. Probably will for you.  Nothing is absolute.

Wade

'Forum Post wrote:
> Yagisan Wrote: 
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>>Ubuntuguide is not, has not, and will not be an offical site...
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> Most people including myself knows this. And most people that points
> Ubuntuguide to newbies will state this too when they mention
> Ubuntuguide. Even Ubuntuguide declares it is unofficial.
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> I'm not sure about Ubuntuguide breaking a system. It hasn't done any
> harm to mine. But I do know there is a risk, with all the unofficial
> repos added. I hope others are aware of the risk too.
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> But lets not trivialise the contribution that Ubuntuguide has given.
> When I was having distro-fever, testing and jumping from one distro to
> another... the things that got me stuck with Ubuntu is the brown theme
> and Ubuntuguide.
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> Not sure why I keep coming back to Ubuntuguide. Maybe it's because
> Ubuntuguide was one of the first "guide" or "help" around for Ubuntu.
> Or maybe the simple layout, or maybe it was created by a fellow
> Malaysian.
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> I guess many others and myself are just comfortable coming back to a
> place that we're familiar with. Sure, it's not perfect... but it works
> for most of the time and for some, that's enough.
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