Ubuntu for extreme beginners
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This document provides an overview of a 2-hour presentation and hands-on training session on Ubuntu for extreme beginners. It introduces Ubuntu, discusses reasons to use it including being free and open source, and covers installing and using Ubuntu including applications, file management, installing software, user accounts, and the terminal. The session concludes with hands-on exercises in using common Ubuntu features and commands.
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Editor's Notes
- We'll discuss some basics for about 30 minutes, then move on to computers and run Ubuntu Linux for the first time. We'll run Ubuntu from a “Live CD” which means no changes will be done to the existing system. We'll have a look at the running system, explain the GUI and basic use of Ubuntu.
- Operating system makes your hardware function and allows you to do things with the hardware. MS DOS and FreeDOS are disk operating systems – meaning they only provide access to disks and execution of COM and EXE files. They allow to run one process at a time. You may remember that in the old days you had to pick the graphics and sound card type before staring a game: the drivers were included in the game itself! *NIX-like and modern Windows systems provide functionality that all applications share: access to hardware, shared libraries, dynamic library loading, multiprocessing... GNU/Linux: Linux is an open source kernel – provides that shared functionality. But it provides it by utilizing GNU software: compilers, shells, core libraries.
- Linux was mostly used by computer geeks because it gave them freedom to hack around the operating system, build strange device drivers and see source code of all software running on their system. ...until Canonical announced Ubuntu. They focused on making Linux look user friendly and provide all the functionality an average computer user would require. Ubuntu is used daily in many organizations, mostly powering the server environment, but is becoming very popular with casual computer users.
- Adding applications to Ubuntu can be done in several ways: through official and unofficial software repositories, developer repositories, source code. Main configuration for Linux systems resides in etc folder on file system root. Software sources can be configured using System -> Administration -> Software sources, command line or by editing /etc/apt/sources.list Proxy configuration may be required: System -> Preferences -> Network proxy