missing programs, books for beginners?
Dan Farrell
dan at spore.ath.cx
Sun Aug 2 21:04:37 UTC 2009
On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:18:28 -0700
Sharon Ruck <ruckster at curlewagape.com> wrote:
> Howdy!
> I'm new to Linux, my ex was the guru. I have worked a tiny amount in
> Unix about 10 years ago in Antarctica. Windows xp expert (installs,
> repairs, etc), piece of junk....
Ubuntu departs from the UNIX world in many ways; one of them is to make
lots of stuff graphical. If you want to hang out in command line
world, may I recommend you use bash as your shell rather than that
hideous default, whatever it is, in ubuntu? Just type 'bash' after you
bring up a cli shell.
> when I try to use a few programs referenced to by a book I have, they are
> not in the menus where the book states they are.
You can always try running them from the command line if you can't find
them in the menus. I think you can find the terminal in the menus
easily enough; I recommend you then type 'bash' first off for a nice
easy terminal experience.
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