Ubuntu Linux

actually not 100% right...a lot of the guys at my university from non-CS background use their *unix OS seamlessly without knowing a lot of shell programming... i understand you need to know like real basics but that's about it unless you need to do some extensive stuff with your *unix machine

what would u do if u want to replace the blank spaces in file names with _ ? I mean how long it would take u to do that manually, for every file on your disk... it should take u about 10 sec to write the command, than the computer would do the rest...yeah you could make a program to do that..but you would miss all the Unix essence. Of course you can use Linux ignoring that there is a Shell "thins" over there but what would u do when there is no program/button to do the job u want?

see...you are again partially right... you call this behavior as being part of using linux for real... see don't get me wrong.. i am a CS nerd who is deep into shell programming and rarely use the GUI myself... the thing is.. beginners sometimes get scared off by this talk (learning shell programming for using *unix).. and we shouldn't be preaching shell programming at least here learning shell programming is good.. but you can get the work done without knowing it.. my Prof does :P Peace out!

From a beginner point of view that should be "totally" true; but when it comes to doing "some more",and there's no button, or you're in a hurry and have no time for having fun with the mouse, then they recall a scary you_tube post where people were talking about shell programming and commands and stuff like that :D;If anyone using Linux gets anything but curious when hearing "shell programming" they would actually get sacked in no time from a company that asks u to "know unix".w u t best of luck

the thing is.. we both are seemingly alluding at the same thing but from different angles :P a new comer DOES not need to know the details about shell programming to start using *unix, it's the same for windows as well..you ideally should know about stuff before delving into the OS, and it is the same for any other OS.. i agree that windows may provide just a bit more through the GUI than what *unix does.. but i again repeat..newbies don't need to know shell programming to start using *unix

:D OK, I don't want to extend this any more, it's just that when someone says that he/she's using Unix (which actually doesn't exist), u know what I mean, well they are actually using the console for making their life easier, otherwise they are just using a window system not Unix. That is why people like it so much, u can do almost anything using shell programming and Ansi C :D (please don't start :D)... if u really are into Unix I invite you to use Plan9...for real...good luck !!! :-)

by card...do you mean your graphics card?

ive create my own linux with ubuntu hardy i love Ubuntu and in a future mi linux could ber downloaded to all the world

ubuntu is my main os now that i learned how to use it like a pro

Haha, if you delete the Ubuntu Partition while on Vista then GRUB is still there, trust me, I got screwed from it. Luckily I figured it out. If you delete the Ubuntu Partition and GRUB won't let you start up, then put in your Windows Vista CD and type the following into the command prompt when you can... bootrec.exe_/fixmbr