I am a linux-fan. Ubuntu flavor of linux. 10.10 version.
Tired of Windows concealing ways, I shifted to ubuntu about two years back.
I regularly depended on the command sudo apt-get install ... for installing new packages. It has never disappointed me for a long time.
use dual boot grub of ubuntu with windows xp : sometimes, I had some successes but failures were more. Windows used failed to boot and I had to reinstall. Every reinstall of windows ate the grub in my dev/sda, owing to intolerance of windows towards other operating systems. As re- and re- installations of Ubuntu were easier than windows, I re- and re- installed Ubuntu.
Reinstallations of Ubuntu were resulting in loss of many packages I got using apt-get install commands, getting deb files, and configuring tar files.
Recently, it seems that Ubuntu stopped supporting updates for 10.10 version. It also seems that they withdrew support for some repositories, which we could include with the command add-apt-repository ppa:., or by gediting source.list file.
Consequently, I found that it is frustrating to install packages like aptitude, gparted and filezilla or gftp. Downloading dependencies seems to be a heavy and costly affair. For example, for sudo apt-get install of gpartem, I get a command line reply message of needing to download 398 mbs of dependencies for the installation.
The same is the case with filezilla. Though, I downloaded the tar (zip in windows lingo) files of filezilla, and tried to configure and make files, I got error messages of missing dependencies.
I learnt over internet, that Nautilus file Manager, available with Ubuntu, by default is very useful.
Steps for using Nautilus:
Places. Desktop option. Desktop folder will appear. File Menu. Connect to Server option. Various choices appear. We type the ftp address, user-name, and password if any for logging into the ftp server (our host). When our root directory appears, uploading of files will only be a drag and drop / copy-paste affair.
Though Nautilus file manager, may miss some of the extra functionalities of filezilla, by and large it serves our purpose.
Added on 24th August 2013.
After working for several months with nautilus, I have come to a reasonable conclusion that it is better than filezilla. Though filezilla is free, Nautilus is more convenient because it comes free and as DEFAULT with ubuntu (I use ubuntu 10.10). Whenever we format and reinstall or reinstall ubuntu, we need not worry about getting filezilla.
Tired of Windows concealing ways, I shifted to ubuntu about two years back.
I regularly depended on the command sudo apt-get install ... for installing new packages. It has never disappointed me for a long time.
use dual boot grub of ubuntu with windows xp : sometimes, I had some successes but failures were more. Windows used failed to boot and I had to reinstall. Every reinstall of windows ate the grub in my dev/sda, owing to intolerance of windows towards other operating systems. As re- and re- installations of Ubuntu were easier than windows, I re- and re- installed Ubuntu.
Reinstallations of Ubuntu were resulting in loss of many packages I got using apt-get install commands, getting deb files, and configuring tar files.
Recently, it seems that Ubuntu stopped supporting updates for 10.10 version. It also seems that they withdrew support for some repositories, which we could include with the command add-apt-repository ppa:., or by gediting source.list file.
Consequently, I found that it is frustrating to install packages like aptitude, gparted and filezilla or gftp. Downloading dependencies seems to be a heavy and costly affair. For example, for sudo apt-get install of gpartem, I get a command line reply message of needing to download 398 mbs of dependencies for the installation.
The same is the case with filezilla. Though, I downloaded the tar (zip in windows lingo) files of filezilla, and tried to configure and make files, I got error messages of missing dependencies.
I learnt over internet, that Nautilus file Manager, available with Ubuntu, by default is very useful.
Steps for using Nautilus:
Places. Desktop option. Desktop folder will appear. File Menu. Connect to Server option. Various choices appear. We type the ftp address, user-name, and password if any for logging into the ftp server (our host). When our root directory appears, uploading of files will only be a drag and drop / copy-paste affair.
Though Nautilus file manager, may miss some of the extra functionalities of filezilla, by and large it serves our purpose.
Added on 24th August 2013.
After working for several months with nautilus, I have come to a reasonable conclusion that it is better than filezilla. Though filezilla is free, Nautilus is more convenient because it comes free and as DEFAULT with ubuntu (I use ubuntu 10.10). Whenever we format and reinstall or reinstall ubuntu, we need not worry about getting filezilla.
