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 i
n 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...
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