Ubuntu 10 tutorial?

[Tenaja]

I've used Ubuntu just a little bit; got a computer with it preinstalled, due to one application. But other than browsing the directories, I don't know much about it, and certainly don't know the command line instructions. I'm very familiar with Windows... now I want to start porting my code to Linux, and I need to stick with Ubuntu LTS versions.

Anyway, can anybody recommend a tutorial? Something like "Ubuntu 10 for Windows users?" I don't need one of those overly wordy books, but short and sweet, yet complete.

Thanks!

[BorisTheOld]

Five years ago, having no experience with Linux, but with lots of experience with Windows, I purchased a book about Ubuntu. I spent about an hour skimming through the book, but decided that I could learn more about Ubuntu by installing it from the DVD that came with the book.

Within a few days I had learned about the wonders of the Ubuntu Software Centre and the Update Manager, and never again looked at a book or tutorial about Ubuntu. Within a couple more weeks I'd switched all our systems from Windows XP to Ubuntu 7.10 - running our Windows applications under Wine, and some old DOS applications under VirtualBox/WinXP.

I've found that Ubuntu is easy to figure out, and for anything that I can't, there's lots of information on the Net. In fact, there's more information on the Net than you're likely to find in a book.

Now, after five years, we're up to version 12.04 LTS, and are writing all our applications in cross-platform Pure Basic.

I suggest that you just dive in as we did. And by the way, we've done it all without learning anything about Linux command line instructions.

[Shardik]

You may take a look into the Ubuntu manual of the "Ubuntu manual project". Go to

http://ubuntu-manual.org/downloads

and under "2. Which edition would you like?" select "Getting started with Ubuntu 10.04 - Second Edition".

After clicking on "Download" you can download and save the PDF manual.

[Tenaja]

Thanks guys; I've downloaded the Getting Started. My plan was to just read through the differences before diving in, kind of like BTO did... to learn simple things that you keep seeing outside of Windows, like what the heck is "mount???" I'm not a hunter...

[Poshu]

Well, windows mount disk too, you know :p

[BorisTheOld]

Mount (verb)

To lift up.
To get on something above the level of the ground.
To seat oneself (as on a horse) for riding.

Forty years ago, when I worked at the IBM research lab in Toronto, the mainframe operators named a number of 3330 disk packs after the female programmers on our team.

This brought great joy to their lives whenever the system console instructed them to "Mount Marsha".