Taking Inventory

Nov 1, 2006, 6:00pm, I found that I could right click on the desktop and get a MS Windows like screen setup for color changes and background images. To get to other things like resolution, background image, themes, font, sounds and color settings Click on the SYSTEM button top left side of your desktop on the menu bar. All of these items seem easy to use but you will probably have to add your own pictures, wavs, mp3, themes, to have any real choices. (with everything that did come with this single CD install I did not expect to find much in themes and backgrounds).

As to what you get, here is a list (You access the programs by clicking on the APPLICATIONS button on menu bar on the upper left corner of your desktop)

ACCESSORIES
Archive Manager
Calculator
Character Mapper
Dictionary
Disk Usage Analyzer
Take Screenshot
Terminal
Text Editor
GAMES
(there are about 12 basic games)
GRAPHICS
F-Spot Photo Manager
Gimp Image Editor
Gthumb Image Viewer
Xsane Image Scanner
INTERNET
Ekiga Softphone
Firefox 2
Gaim Instant Messenger
Terminal Server Client
OFFICE
Evolutions (email)
Open Office II (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, database)
PROGRAMING
(none)
SOUND&VIDEO
Movie Player
Rythembox Music Player
Serpentine Audio CD Creator
Sound Juicer CD Extractor
Sound Recorder


Under the SYSTEM BUTTON on the menu bar (upper left) there are two important sub menus, they are PREFERENCES and ADMINISTRATION. From what I can tell so far, ADMINISTRATION is like MS Windows Control Panel or "Manage Computer". PREFERENCES is like right clicking on a MS Windows desktop but adds "mouse" and "sound" items. Basically I'm thinking PREFERENCES controls how Ubuntu Linux looks and feels. ADMINISTRATION looks to be more of a hardware manager, system monitor, network setup and user manager.

Ok enough of what's here. I'm off to start using this thing. I'm going to go and create this Blog to document my struggle. (I haven't even thought about my MS Windows machine for at lest 20 seconds now)

Next - Add/Removing Applications