A little help please!

[debiani386]

Hank P wrote:
> Hi Everybody!
>
> VERY Old dog trying to learn new tricks.  Is there a Brain Dead Newbie 
> Guide in PLAIN ENGLISH for Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 floating around anywhere?
>
> With my very limited knowledge of op sys and hardware I'm lost.  My 
> personal thought ... Ubuntu and the community = AWESOME!
>
> The KDE part of it is driving me nutz.  All their help files are 
> written for geeks and gurus, not dummies like me. I tried to d/l and 
> install an application. It is now lost in cyberspace (or in the 
> invisible bits and bytes bucket) on my HDD.  I can't get any DVD 
> player to work among other things.  Don't even know how to get into 
> root dir. or anything else, so please be kind to me - I freely admit 
> I'm at the kindergarden level with Ubuntu and Linux.   After getting 
> sick on a diet of windoze I had to do something, and I will hang in here!
>
> FYI (if it matters) - HW is P4, 2.66G, 3/4Gig of mem and all the usual 
> junk (DVD/CD Burner, 2 Gig flash card, flop and 80Gig HDD).  Guess 
> it's junk by today's standards, but it still works!
>
> My Thanks, and my very sincere appreciation to ALL who contribute to 
> Ubuntu and the lists (even when I don't have a clue what they are 
> talking about...... this learning curve for me is straight up the 
> mountain side right now)
>
> Hank Pettigrew
>
> < If you live long enough, 1 day you will be OLD 2 >
Here are some notes that you will need when you are using ubuntu

1) Ubuntu comes with a program called "Totem". It doesnt work all that 
great and doesnt play most movies and music files.

2) The Root directory is known as "\". to access it, type \ in the white 
bar next to the word "search" in one of your open windows.

3) the only time that you will need to use ROOT for anything is when 
your installing software. Ubuntu will prompt you for the ROOT (or admin) 
password. If you are the only user of the computer, your password should 
work just fine. It is not recommended that you use ROOT for day-to-day 
usage as you can do catastrophic damage to your ubuntu.

HTH and, for others out there on this list, please correct me if there 
is anything incorrect in this post
--cj