2009/3/4 John jake...@sky.com
I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but I was just wondering, are
there any websites or books that are Ubuntu specific, that are easy to
read and understand
Before spending any money on dead tree books take a look at
http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com it's a
2009/3/4 John jake...@sky.com:
I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but I was just wondering, are
there any websites or books that are Ubuntu specific, that are easy to
read and understand. I want to try using my Terminal more, and I think
I'm now ready to start learning.
Read man pages.
2009/3/5 Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk:
Read man pages. The first UNIX like system I used was a VAX-VMS
system.
Er, VAX-VMS was not remotely UNIX-like and did not have a man
command, nor ls, cd or any of those.
The directory-listing command was not ls, it was DIR or indeed any
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/3/5 Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk:
Read man pages. The first UNIX like system I used was a VAX-VMS
system.
Er, VAX-VMS was not remotely UNIX-like and did not have a man
command, nor ls, cd or any of those.
Quite
I approve of this wild topic drift :)
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
Quite right, none of this Unix nonsense... we used to have VML and God
knows what else... oh, I guess we'd
Ian,
Ian Betteridge wrote:
I approve of this wild topic drift :)
Yes, me too! I was a grewat lover of OpenVMS (to give it its proper
name) and all things VAX and Alpha. I still have an Alpha workstation
running OpenVMS running under my desk!
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Sean Miller
Liam Proven wrote:
[...]
VAXen ran Unix - indeed, Unix was developed on VAXen. But the native
VAX OS, although much much later rated POSIX-compatible, was VMS which
is nothing like Unix in any way.
Hello, Liam.
Wrong! - Unix was developed on pdp11's: I used it on a pdp11/23 + 11/34.
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
I remember driving my friend Hugo Fiennes in, perhaps, the late 80s to
pick up a PDP 11 running Unix. I remember him joking about she sells
c-shells etc.
I've jsut spent 10 minutes trying to work out why I knew that name.
This page of Hugo's is fascinating...
http://utter.chaos.org.uk/~altman/mp3mobile/
We have REALLY gone off topic now.
Sean
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Flippin' hell... he developed the iPhone???
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/news/article1/
Arrghhh where did I go wrong?
Sean
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Sean Miller wrote:
Flippin' hell... he developed the iPhone???
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/news/article1/
Arrghhh where did I go wrong?
Sean
Hi everybody, I have quite enjoyed learning about this, even though it
did go off topic, it was quite interesting. Thanks for the link, I
2009/3/5 Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com:
2009/3/5 Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk:
Read man pages. The first UNIX like system I used was a VAX-VMS
system.
Er, VAX-VMS was not remotely UNIX-like and did not have a man
command, nor ls, cd or any of those.
Ok. I can't remember what the
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Guys you really make me wish that I was old enough to have done all of
this. The only way I can get close is by playing with the oldest servers
I could find in my college when I ran it for them for a while (VMS
based). One thing I still find funny
2009/3/5 Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk:
No. I guess my memory could be wrong, but I am certain I was using a
VAX VMS system running some form of X windowing system and it had the
xman program. I can picture myself at the machine I used, and in that
part of the office all the machines were
I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but I was just wondering, are
there any websites or books that are Ubuntu specific, that are easy to
read and understand. I want to try using my Terminal more, and I think
I'm now ready to start learning.
Thank you.
John
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ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
There are books on Ubuntu (such as Ubuntu Kung Fu, and I think there's
Ubuntu For Dummies) available in book shops. I've only seen them in the (for
lack of a better term) BIG Waterstones - in particular the one in Manchester
city center. If your looking for a dead-tree type of thing, I suggest
Hi
There is a Unbuntu Linux for dummies that been wrote with 8.04 in mind
however try to download
unbuntu pocket guide it free, I can't think of top my head where I got
it from
I am still learning so enjoy and get to a LUG group with question wrote
down and fire it at them or go to unbuntu
Hi John,
On 21/12/2007, davisjo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am early 60 and thought I should learn something new. Being an avid night
schooler I saw a course of evening class tuition in Ubuntu and enrolled.
Out of interest, where was this course?
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I am early 60 and thought I should learn something new. Being an avid night
schooler I saw a course of evening class tuition in Ubuntu and enrolled.
It was a good start to my transition but by the end of the course, had more
questions than answers. This is because I want to configure things my
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