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From: ray
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Where to start?
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:15:38 -0700
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On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 12:02:58 +0000, Sla#s wrote:
> OK you've convinced me to escape from the clutches of M$.
> So where should I start?
> Googling that question does not produce a straight answer. Yes, I am
> beginning to realise that's what Open Source means :-)
>
> As I have an old PC (900mhz, 512mb etc) I though a good project would be to
> turn it into a media centre - so got hold of Ubuntu Media Centre and tried
> to load that ... But it didn't and as I became engulfed in heavy duty (to
> me) command line stuff I realised I better start with something easier.
>
> Is there a site, book, version you would care to recommend to learn the
> basics?
> (I went ordered The Official Ubuntu Book - then realised I should have asked
> here first.)
>
> TIA
> Slatts
1) you should not have to do 'heavy duty command line stuff' unless you
want to. Nearly everything has a gui tool.
2) try 'ubuntu for non-geeks' and 'hacking ubuntu'. The latter talks quite
a bit about setting up multimedia capabilities.
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