Press ENTER to install Ubuntu with GNOME.


Installing Kubuntu with KDE is almost exactly the same as Ubuntu.

Choose language you wish to use.

Selection your location

Select keyboard type

Choose a hostname

I believe this is where if you have a network card and wireless card you choose your default network. If you choose wireless it'll prompt you for your ESSID and encryption key/passphrase.

Just let it auto partition for you if your not dual-booting another operating system.

Verify the partition sizes and select Finish. It is uses ext3 journaled filesystem.

Asks you a second time if your sure. Select Yes using the arrow keys.

Make a strawberry pina coloda

Begin drinking your pina coloda

Read what it says above about GMT.

Choose your timezone

Usually people will put Firstname Lastname here.


Select a username that you'll use to login with.

Pick a password and next screen will ask you to re-enter for confirmation.

Ok first stage is complete so take out your CD or DVD and let it reboot.

Shows 354MB of packages that are going to be install from the harddisk. They were previously copied to the harddisk from the CD or DVD. A whopping 1.2GB will be used and they're installed.

This will take sometime. So go start doing some vacation planning.

Xorg configuration chooose the different resolutions you'd like to run. I really wish somehow this would be at the end so it doesn't interrupt the install.

Still will take quite sometime while it sets up the 622 packages. I like how it automatically applies any security updates if you have an active internet connection.

Getting near completion give it a few more minutes. Then you'll be able to login.

[Accessories]
Archive Manager (File Roller) handles .zip, .rar, .lzh, .arj, .tar (bzip, bzip2, gzip, compress)
Calulator Basic, Advanced, Financial, Scientific modes
Text Editor (gedit) utf-8, syntax highlighting

[Games] ones I like are: Blackjack, Mahjongg, Same GNOME, Tetravex.
Really impressed with GNOME games as all of them scale to whatever resolution your running in.

[Graphics]
GIMP Image Editor powerful bitmap graphics editor
gThumb Image Viewer is pretty good and has come a long way.

[Internet]
Evolution Mail extremely powerful mail client
Firefox Web Browser my favorite browser, my favorite firefox extensions
Gaim Internet Messenger Yahoo, ICQ, AIM, MSN, Jabber, etc.

[Office]
OpenOffice built-in export to PDF.

[Sound and Video]
Music Player (Rhythmbox) supports ipod and ipod shuffles
Totem Movie Player pretty popular movie player, visual effects

[System Tools]
Network Tools ping, netstat, traceroute, port scan, lookup, finger, whois
New Login like fast user switching
System Monitor monitor CPU, memory and swap usage, kill processes, change priority (nice value). I wish mac os x had this change priority built-in need to use a separate app (process wizard).
Ubuntu Device Database obtains hardware data, performs self-tests, asks you questions and allows to you voluntarily submit data to Ubuntu developers to improve hardware support.

[Places]
Connect to Server supports SSH, FTP, SMB (CIFS), WebDAV.


[System Preferences]
Preferred Applications you can set your default Web browser, Email client, and Terminal client.
Removable Drives and Media decide how you want to handle when cds are inserted.
Screen Resolution change your resolution and refresh rate.


[System Administration]
Login Screen Setup useful to have it automatically login.
Synaptic you use for installing new packages.
Ubuntu Update Manager kepts your ubuntu system up2date with security releases.

[Internet]
Krfb (Desktop Sharing) create invitations using VNC client
Kopete (Instant Messenger) like Gaim supports AIM, ICQ, IRC, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, etc.
Krdc (Remote Desktop Connection) connect to a remote computer via VNC client
Konqueror (Web Browser) pretty decent browser but I prefer firefox

[Multimedia]
amarok (Audio Player) play ogg, mp3s (if proper codecs are installed)
K3b (CD & DVD Burning) create data cds, burn cd and dvd .iso images

[Office]
Kontact is a nice PIM and Openoffice.

[System]
KinfoCenter (Info Center) provides info on computer's harddrive, memory, networks, etc.
kynaptic (Package Manager) is an GUI to apt-get to install programs like Synaptic
KSysGuard (Performance Monitor) monitor CPU, memory usage, renice apps priority levels.

[Printing Manager] you can monitor and control print jobs

Quickly access Home Folder, Storage Media and flip between 4 virtual desktops.

[KDE Control Center]
Peripherals | Display to change monitor's resolution and refresh rate.
System Administration | Login Manager | Convience tab to have a user automatically login.



Updated Apr 13, 2005


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