Installing Ubuntu Linux.....

People those who are curious about learning Linux and want to give a try to it but don't know where to start fro them I'll just try to organize things here for them. I'll try to give you all possible resources which can help them out in their learning process. Ubuntu is one of the famous and much more user friendly Linux distro out there and has got a very cool eye candy too. So we'll start with downloading Ubuntu.

1: Click here to download Ubuntu 8.10. You can easily burn
the ISO image to a CD.Take care while choosing your processor
architecture (i386 or x86 for all Intel based processors and x64
for AMD64 and Intel core 2 duo processors) .

2: Installation guide is here . After restart the login screen will appear an you need to give the user name and password which you decided while installation and after login the desktop will look like this.

3: After that you need to check for an Internet connection and need to enable the repositories. from panel click System>>administration>>Software Sources. It may ask for the password and will open new window with different tabs. Select all the check boxes(They represent the type of repositories). Move to next tab(Third-party software) and there will be two more default repositories from Canonical. You need to check them also and close. It will ask for an update and new packages will be getting added.

4)Then in order to install new software goto Applications>>Add/Remove and you will get a new window like Here you can see a long list of software divided into different categories. You can easily install new software. You need not worry about any kind of 'dependency' errors. So in order to resolve any dependency , you can install necessary packages from Synaptic Package Manager . And at last I want to assure every body that there are really cool software available in Linux as an alternate to any windows software.




I think this has been useful to for you guys and comments are invited. Keep reading keep learning and I'll keep writing...

A helping hand....

It started like that lots of people asked me to start blogging but till now I use to feel lazy to come here and just type in my views. Today with start of Worldwide Volunteer's Week, I decided to do something which can give others some happiness and really it proved to be one of the important day of my life when I shared my day with those who have got a life but they can't be like us all and do not have all those comfort of life which a normal person gets. Moreover they are deprived of the love and affection of their parents. But in spite of all the odds in their life they have a great zeal to live life in their own way and also they were happy when we get there to share time with them .
Actually this whole program was powered by GLOSS (GNU/LINUX open source @ SASTRA ) ; an open source community in my college . We (J.Dwarakanath-Sun CA, Amarnath , Uday and ofcourse me) began in morning and took a bus to Thanjavur, had a one hour journey, followed by a twenty minutes walk till our destination.
At 11:10 we were there . It was a school for
orphan and mentally retarded children.

We met warden there and came to know that inmates have started going out for holidays to their home , but there were enough to have a get together(around 30). We asked them to gather in the prayer hall and it was nice to see those little guys singing prayer being very pure and innocent at their heart. We got them sweets and some stationary items and their happiness was on seventh sky. Then we talked with them and shared their view. After that it was tech-time cum play-time as we let them try their hands on some coolJAVAFX and Flash games. It was so nice to see them happy and they felt that very much enjoyable, which was clearly seen through their curiosity. Although this was the first time for me to visit such a place and it was a great experience for me. I really loved the journey and felt bit proud to work for a social cause. All this was arranged by Sun Campus Ambassador J.Dwarakanath and I am thankful to him to consider me to be the part of this event.

Well I think its enough for my first post and I hope I will continue writing and please, you continue reading my blog...