First steps in Debian: A noob’s viewpoint, Part 2

Things I did once the fresh install of Debian 3.1 booted up and I was presented with the terminal. Contains useful commands and tips for shell usage.

Installing Debian: A noob’s viewpoint

Yey, so I managed to get back my old Toshiba laptop (the one where the Ubuntu fiasco occurred) and install Debian on it. It has the advantage of not being used so if anything goes wrong I can just wipe the entire system and install Windows over it (sadly it is a rather reassuring thought).
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Installation revisited

Got the itch to install Linux again. Let’s hope this time it works better than the previous unhappy experience.
This time, I chose to install Debian–though it’s relatively more technical than Ubuntu: eg. you have to install and configure the graphics thingy yourself (X windows system and GNOME/KDE–otherwise no nice graphical desktop and windows). Not exactly [...]