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Home Face-to-Face Local Support Our worldwide network of Local Community ("LoCo") teams is providing a strong backbone to our already vast and extensive Ubuntu community. Many of these teams provide free, face-to-face local support, such as one-on-one troubleshooting, group sessions, and presentations about Ubuntu. Why not go and see the full list of teams! Contents 1. Non-English Support 1. Bengali (Bangladesh) 2. Brazilian 3. Catalan 4. Česky 5. Chinese 6. Croatian 7. Dutch 8. Finnish 9. French 10. German 11. Greek 12. Hebrew and Arabic 13. India (any Indian language) 14. Indonesian 15. Italian 16. Japanese 17. Korean 18. Kurdish 19. Persian (Iran) 20. Portuguese 21. Romanian 22. Russian 23. Slovak 24. Spanish 1. General 2. Argentina 3. Chile 25. Swedish 26. Tamil 27. Turkish 28. Urdu (Pakistan) Non-English Support Support channels on IRC and mailing lists exist for Ubuntu users whose first language is not English. You are welcome to join one of these or start your own. An important part of the Ubuntu manifesto is your ability to use your software in your local language. Part of that is ensuring that Ubuntu includes the best translations available for the Ubuntu desktop software (and you can help to improve those translations). Another part of that commitment is helping to create mailing lists and IRC channels for Ubuntu users in different languages. If you want to start a local team or to join an existing one, visit https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeams Bengali (Bangladesh) * Website: http://www.ubuntu-bd.org/ * Forum: http://forum.ubuntu-bd.org/ * IRC: #ubuntu-bd on irc.freenode.net * Mailing list: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd Brazilian * Website: http://www.ubuntu-br.org * Forums: http://forum.ubuntu-br.org * Wiki documentation: http://wiki.ubuntu-br.org * IRC: #ubuntu-br on chat.freenode.net * Mailing list: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-br

The Terminal is Your Friend Perhaps the most powerful tool in Linux is your Terminal Program. Before you jump in, take a moment to familiarize yourself with the command line--your invaluable asset in Linux. FAQs Still have questions? You are not alone. Stop by the most common questions that new Ubuntu users frequently ask. Installation * See Installation for both basic and advanced methods of installing Ubuntu, as well as information about supported hardware. * Read the Upgrade Notes to find out how to upgrade your system from older versions of Ubuntu. * For a video tutorial on the full installation process, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8a-smrPlvE&hd=1

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of realtime Internet chat. It is mainly designed for group (many-to-many) communication in discussion forums called channels, but also allows one-to-one communlication via private message. On IRC you can talk to many other members using Ubuntu, on topics ranging from idle chit-chat to support with your Ubuntu. Though a channel might have many people in it at any one time, they might not always be at their keyboard; so if no-one responds, just wait around and someone will hopefully answer soon enough. This page serves as an information base for users of the Ubuntu IRC channels. The Ubuntu channels can be found on the Freenode network, irc.freenode.net. xchat in Ubuntu has this network preconfigured and the main channel, #ubuntu, will automatically be joined. Kubuntu also comes with Konversation, which is also pre-configured for the Kubuntu help channels. When participating in Ubuntu IRC channels, please abide by the Code of Conduct and channel guidelines.

General Upgrade Information

If you have been a Windows and/or a Mac OS user to date, you are probably used to searching for a program on the internet (often offered in an executable installer) and having to download and install it. You're probably familiar with software distributed on CDs, DVDs, etc. which often have an autorun feature from where you can then install them. For free and open systems like Ubuntu GNU/Linux there is some software distributed in this fashion, but those are mostly proprietary and closed programs.

User Documentation Welcome to the community documentation for Ubuntu, created by users just like you! [WWW] Documentation in other languages is also available. Please read the Wiki Guide before making any edits. Thanks.

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