Another Unofficial UbuntuGuide?

[Alfred Vahau]

Had a constraint on my project. Build a library system for accessing the 
catalogue from an
old PC and use Linux. Tried fives distros and only Ubuntu installed in 
least time with full hardware
detection. Had to learn to speak the Deb. language. Registered with the 
list and stuck with it and lo! someone pointed me to the Ubuntuguide. It 
made me make the fastest transition to Debian and Ubuntu and I'm improving
all the time, thanks to the list. The guide had its use, exposed me to 
Ubuntu and the Linux cause at my institution. Full credit to the author 
of the unofficial guide.

A related experience may help appreciate the guide. A recent forum on a 
computer language had a newbie requesting for pointers to material to 
learn the language fast. One subscriber quoted a URL, rather 
comprehensive for a newbie but which nevertheless expose the language in 
progressive stages. Basics, intermediate and advance.

Language purists quickly shot down the URL citing that it was out of 
date and unmaintained and that newbie
was directed elsewhere. The point of it all in my opinion was that the 
newbie had his horizons broaden on
what he was getting into and I'm sure he got to appreciate the language 
a lot better.

For me as a newcomer to Ubuntu and Debian, the guide played a useful 
part in broadening my understanding on
Ubuntu. I do not consult it very often now as I have made some progress 
on the official way of doing things in Ubuntu.

Alfred,


Chanchao wrote:

>If it wasn't for Ubuntuguide I would not be using Ubuntu.
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>My first Ubuntu-hour went like:
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>1. Install... okay.. looks good!
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>2. Play an MP3, nothing.  Play a DVD..  nothing. What the F...!?  Ok, off with this
>crap..
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>3. then again.. spent so much time downloading and installing, let's
>see if this is a common problem.. So google for 'ubuntu MP3'
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>4. Found ubuntuguide
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>5. SAVED!
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