Ubuntu Linux Guide for Windows Users

This is for all of you Windows users who are not ready to fully jump into Ubuntu but wanna experience Ubuntu here's a nice application for you.

Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way. Are you curious about Linux and Ubuntu? Trying them out has never been easier!

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Dual Boot Windows and Ubuntu installation

Ubuntu is becoming more and more complete and easy to configure. However, like any operating system there's work to be done after the installation.
Click the link below to for the 10 Tips for After You Install or Upgrade Ubuntu.

10 Tips for After You Install or Upgrade Ubuntu

Most Windows users who migrate to Ubuntu end up confused about software installation. They go to a website, download a .tar.gz file, double-click it, and don't see a Next-Next-Next-Finish wizard. This tutorial is intended to introduce you to the preferred methods of software installation in Ubuntu.

Rather than leaving it up to the user to track down installer files and keep applications updated, Ubuntu (like many other Linux distributions) has a software package management system that provides a searchable database of easily installable applications (like an online shopping cart but the software is cost-free), which it will download and install for you with a few clicks.

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For Window users switching to Linux or Ubuntu, performing simple tasks can be a challenge. One simple task such as checking free and used hard drive disk space on Ubuntu, is easy using the graphical utility Disk Usage Analyzer or from a Terminal window using the command df.

Checking
Disk Space From Gnome and Kubuntu

Disk Usage
Analyzer is a graphical
menu driven application that reports disk usage in Gnome and Kubuntu
environments. DUA can scan the entire file system tree or individual
directories, either local or remote. DUA is also dynamic, in that it
will report in real time any devices that are mounted and unmounted.

To access
Disk Usage Analyzer in Gnome, click on Applications \
Accessories \ Disk Usage Analyzer

To access
Disk Usage Analyzer in Kubuntu, click on K Menu \ Utilities
\ Disk Usage Analyzer

When
launched, DUA will start up in a stand by state, showing you total
system capacity, used and available disk space.

To view the
entire file system including usage by individual directories, click the
Scan Filesystem icon on the toolbar. When the scan
is completed, the full tree of your file system will be displayed.

From this
display, you get a nice
picture of the disk usage on the entire file system. You can also
expand the top level directories and drill down to see sub-directoires
and their disk usage, and sort each column to view each directory
usage, size and contents. In the right window pane, a graphical layout
is displayed. Moving your mouse over a block will display the directory
and size.

Selecting Edit
\ Preferences
from the menu, allows selection of any additional devices connected to
your Computer that can be enabled or disabled from being monitored.

A feature
that I like with Disk Usage Analyzer, is the ability to right click and
open the directory by launching Nautilus
File Browser.

Checking
Disk Space From The Command Line

Another way
to view disk usage in Ubuntu is from the Terminal window by clicking on

Application
\ Accessories \ Terminal from the panel in Gnome.

K
Menu \ Utilities \ Terminal Window from the panel in Kubuntu

Unlike Windows,
finding available disk space, from the command prompt, is
much easier in Ubuntu using the df command
when connected locally or remote via an SSH
session.

DF command
reports how
much free
disk space is available for each mount you have. When executing DF, I
like to use the -h option, which returns the output in a more readable
format:

wtn@wtn2:~$
df -h

Filesystem           
Size  Used Avail   
Use%    Mounted on

/dev/sda1            
7.5G  2.1G  5.1G   
30%    /

varrun               
252M  108K  252M  
1%     /var/run

varlock              
252M    
0    252M  
0%     /var/lock

udev                 
252M   68K  
252M   1%    /dev

devshm             
252M     0  
252M    0%   
/dev/shm

lrm                  
252M   33M 
219M    14% 
/lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/volat

DF can also
report free disk space for individual directories by entering the
following command at the prompt:

ds
-h /nameofdirectory

Using df at
the command prompt is most usefull when checking disk space on remote
computers.

To
view more available options with df, enter df
-help at the command prompt.

It's official: Ubuntu 8.04 has gone gold. This is one of the most highly anticipated releases of Ubuntu to date, but does it hold up to the hype? We take a look at what's new, what's stable, what's good and what's not in our latest review.

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