I think you are right that I might not want to waste time with ubuntu. I've been quite happy with debian. I've just heard so much good stuff about ubuntu. So I thought I would try it.
Biggest issue for me is that there doesn't seem to be much there and this old debian system is loaded to the hilt On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 04:42:05PM -0600, Mark Carlson wrote: > Applications -> System... makes sense to me. > > What keyboard layout did you select (if any?) > http://www.kubuntu.org/docs/kquickguide/C/ch03s07.html#regional-keyboardlayout > > Most desktop users with one hard drive have only a root partition. The > other "partitions" you see from the 'df' output are pretty self explanatory > if you use the 'mount' command instead of 'df' (search engines are helpful > for this sort of thing as well.) > > If you want to reinstall and fine-tune the configuration (including the > partition layout,) I believe you can still do this, but you may have to use > a different install CD. > > Although, it sounds like you may want to just avoid Ubuntu altogether. > Otherwise, you need to accept that it is different from what you are > currently used to. If you continue with Ubuntu, you will need to re-learn > many things, just like if you switched to any other distro. > > -Mark C. > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 4:22 PM, <t...@terralogic.net> wrote: > > > > > That helped. I found it! They put in under applications->system. WHat a > > dumb place to put it. Next I see they have the KB map all screwed up! I > > don't have a "/" key. the ">" is a period as is the ".". > > > > I did do a search but I looked for "bash" and it can't find that! > > > > Next I did a "df" to see how the default partitioning is done and well - > > its all screwed up as well! I have / and that is basically it with a 3 > > other partitions I've never seen b4. > > > > How to people feel about just running with "/"? I've always set up > > something like this: > > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda5 19222656 11999000 6247108 66% / > > tmpfs 321016 0 321016 0% /dev/shm > > /dev/hda6 9612100 4811292 4312536 53% /usr > > /dev/hda1 14119 3400 9990 26% /boot > > /dev/hda2 14149 1043 12376 8% /maint > > /dev/hda7 9612100 1846100 7277728 21% /var > > /dev/hda8 9612100 122404 9001424 2% /dbms > > /dev/hda9 27854836 23416304 3023580 89% /home > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 03:55:28PM -0600, Mark Carlson wrote: > > > http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/terminal > > > > > > Does this help? > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 3:45 PM, <t...@terralogic.net> wrote: > > > > > > > I run gnome on my redhat box and kde on my debian box. I happen to > > like > > > > gnome terminal and it runs just fine on the kde gui. BUt these are > > both > > > > old systems. > > > > > > > > So I dont' know what the new gnome nor KDE are going to look like. > > > > > > > > At this point the new KDE is unfamiliar and I would execpt somehwere > > there > > > > would be some sort of terminal. I see what looks like a terminal and > > its > > > > titled "utilities" but there is no terminal in the list of utilities - > > and > > > > its a very short list indeed! Next there is an apps icon and no > > terminal > > > > there. > > > > > > > > This list is also short. I see only one editor. There should be a > > whole > > > > list of editors to choose from. I do not see the GNU tools. But maybe > > > > they are installed. > > > > > > > > In short so far it looks like a really impoverished distro. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 03:27:29PM -0600, Mark Carlson wrote: > > > > > Did you try installing Gnome Terminal? Kubuntu would not come with a > > > > Gnome > > > > > app pre-installed, but you should be able to run it on top of KDE > > > > (although > > > > > it will have a number of dependencies that need to be installed as > > well.) > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 3:12 PM, <t...@terralogic.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I just realized. On this machine I have always used gnome > > terminal... > > > > and > > > > > > the shell is bash. BUt this was the default and I was happy with > > it. > > > > Now > > > > > > I don't see how its even configured to run bash. > > > > > > > > > > > > I guess what I'm really looking for in Kubuntu is gnome terminal. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 02:04:28PM -0700, terr@terralogic.netwrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I just installed Kubuntu... I forget the version but it was the > > most > > > > > > recent I could find. I can't find bash. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > clug-talk mailing list > > > > > > > clug-talk@clug.ca > > > > > > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > > > > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > > > > > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > clug-talk mailing list > > > > > > clug-talk@clug.ca > > > > > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > > > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > > > > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > clug-talk mailing list > > > > > clug-talk@clug.ca > > > > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > > > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > clug-talk mailing list > > > > clug-talk@clug.ca > > > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > clug-talk mailing list > > > clug-talk@clug.ca > > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > clug-talk@clug.ca > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
