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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers how do i get unix started Post 302081653 by blowtorch on Wednesday 26th of July 2006 11:09:11 PM
Old 07-27-2006
chaitanyamanot, first up, the rules. No posting your email address in your posts. Secondly, use proper english. No cyberchat style posts.
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Before downloading/installing, find out more about unix/Linux from the internet. You can search on google. There are also several distributions of Linux that are freely available for download.
Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, Redhat Fedora.

You can go to these sites and see what Linux is all about.

If you are interested in 'unix', go for
OpenSolaris, FreeBSD.

Remember, google is your best source for all information. If you face any specific problems while installing/working with Linux/unix, you can post those questions on these forums (fora!).

Also, the various operating systems here are not the only ones available. There are many more...
 

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seeded-in-ubuntu(1)					      General Commands Manual					       seeded-in-ubuntu(1)

NAME
seeded-in-ubuntu - Determine whether a package is safe to upload during a freeze SYNOPSIS
seeded-in-ubuntu [options] package... DESCRIPTION
Lists all the current daily images containing the specified packages. Or whether the package is part of the supported seed. If it isn't on an image, it should be safe to upload. During the final freeze, one should avoid packages in the supported seed too. An index of the current manifests is downloaded from UbuntuWire. OPTIONS
-b, --binary The packages specified are binary packages. This is faster than source packages, as otherwise we must query LP to determine the binary packages that every specified source package builds. -u URL, --data-url=URL URL for index of seeded packages. Default: UbuntuWire's service at http://qa.ubuntuwire.org/ubuntu-seeded-packages/seeded.json.gz. -h, --help Display a help message and exit EXAMPLES
All the images that contain unity: seeded-in-ubuntu -b unity AUTHORS
seeded-in-ubuntu and this manpage were written by Stefano Rivera <stefanor@ubuntu.com>. Both are released under the terms of the ISC License. ubuntu-dev-tools December 2011 seeded-in-ubuntu(1)
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