GettingStartedwithUbuntu14.04

Copyright © 2010–2014 by The Ubuntu Manual Team. Some rights reserved. c b a This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–Share Alike 3.0 License. To view a copy of this license, see Appendix A, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ , or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. Getting Started with Ubuntu 14.04 can be downloaded for free from http:// ubuntu-manual.org/ or purchased from http://ubuntu-manual.org/buy/ gswu1404e2/en_US. A printed copy of this book can be ordered for the price of printing and delivery. We permit and even encourage you to distribute a copy of this book to colleagues, friends, family, and anyone else who might be interested. http://ubuntu-manual.org Second Edition Revision number: 55 Revision date: 2014-12-23 23:20:24 +0100 Contents Prologue 5 Welcome 5 Ubuntu Philosophy 5 A brief history of Ubuntu 6 Is Ubuntu right for you? 7 Contact details 8 About the team 8 Conventions used in this book 8 1 Installation 9 Getting Ubuntu 9 Trying out Ubuntu 10 Installing Ubuntu—Getting started 11 Finishing In......