The Ubuntu User Guide Version 06.02.pdf
This manual was written by ubuntu user and don’t officially represent Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical, or Ubuntu. They are not responsible for the contents of this guide and may not even know of the guide’s existence. Likewise, being a user himself, he is not legally liable for the content here. Use these instructions at your own risk.
Ubuntu is an operating system based on the Linux kernel.1 There are many operating systems based on Linux, and Ubuntu is only one of hundreds of these. I don’t recommend Ubuntu to everyone, but there are some things that make Ubuntu unique among Linux distributions.
Table of Contents:
- The Ubuntu User Guide - Version 06.02 by A.Y. Siu
- About This Guide
- The Purpose of this Guide
- Version Numbers
- The User Guide is Unofficial
- Copyright for This Document
- What is Ubuntu?
- Different Versions of Ubuntu
- How to Get Ubuntu
- Order Free CDs
- Download and Burn
- Booting the CD
- How to Try Ubuntu
- Live CD
- Dual Boot
- Installing Ubuntu
- UTC
- Partitioning
- Grub
- Username and Password
- The rest of the installation process
- Tweaking Ubuntu After Installation
- The Filesystem
- Benefits of the Command-Line/Terminal
- Editing Files as Root/Sudo
- Getting to Know Grub
- Mounting Windows Partitions
- Installing Software in Ubuntu
- apt-get/Synaptic/Adept
- Manual installation of a .deb
- Manual installation of a .rpm
- Installing from source
- Enabling Extra Repositories
- Running Windows Programs
- XFCE: What to do if Gnome or KDE are too slow for your computer
- Other Resources
- Learn how to search
- Sign up for the Ubuntu Forums
- Play Around.The Ubuntu User Guide - Version 06.02 by A.Y. Siu
- About This Guide
- The Purpose of this Guide
- Version Numbers
- The User Guide is Unofficial
- Copyright for This Document
- What is Ubuntu?
- Different Versions of Ubuntu
- How to Get Ubuntu
- Order Free CDs
- Download and Burn
- Booting the CD
- How to Try Ubuntu
- Live CD
- Dual Boot
- Installing Ubuntu
- UTC
- Partitioning
- Grub
- Username and Password
- The rest of the installation process
- Tweaking Ubuntu After Installation
- The Filesystem
- Benefits of the Command-Line/Terminal
- Editing Files as Root/Sudo
- Getting to Know Grub
- Mounting Windows Partitions
- Installing Software in Ubuntu
- apt-get/Synaptic/Adept
- Manual installation of a .deb
- Manual installation of a .rpm
- Installing from source
- Enabling Extra Repositories
- Running Windows Programs
- XFCE: What to do if Gnome or KDE are too slow for your computer
- Other Resources
- Learn how to search
- Sign up for the Ubuntu Forums
- Play Around
Download free Ubuntu manual: The Ubuntu User Guide - Version 06.02.pdf (31 pages pdf file, 0.5 MB).
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