Samba tips

Use

smbstatus to see who is connected in the samba network to my computer... and to see which file that person is actually checking.

Going from Fedora to Ubuntu

Instead of executing su, we have to execute sudo; this command will ask you a password. Just introduce the user password. If you want to be root you have to make
$ sudo su

Basically instead of yum we have another command, namely apt-get. Its use is as follows (more details executing $ man apt-get):
sudo apt-get install nameprogram
sudo apt-get remove nameprogram
sudo apt-get search nameprogram
sudo apt-get update nameprogram

examples:
$ sudo apt-get install thunderbird

$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop #do this if you are using kubuntu, to install gnome

$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade #this command updates all the packages of the system

apt-get requires a list of the sources. You can edit it:
$ kdesu kedit /etc/apt/sources.list



Some other packages that are worth to install are:
adept, kpackage #those are similar to yumex
to execute:
$ kdesu adept

amarok
kdm libdvdread3 #I don't remember what is "kdm"
libxine-extracodecs

koffice

Some pages that contain useful information:
https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/book/book/ubuntubook-ch3-html/UsingUbuntuontheDesktop.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/book/book/ubuntubook-ch6-html/SupportandTypicalProblems.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/book/book/ubuntubook-ch7-kubuntu/Official-Ubuntu-Book-Kubuntu-Chapter.html

Finally, a good forum is www.kubuntuforums.net