Best Book To Learn Ubuntu And The Command Line?

Amazon's chat person says Prime Video will work with Ubuntu 8.04 but I'm using 15.04 and the Ubuntu website is of no help with past distros. Is Amazon lazy or Ubuntu is really a time machine into the future?

I am not sure what happened here, and I find it oddly disturbing that a Putty session from Window could do this, but here is what I did -

I was attempting to open a ssh redirect session from Putty command line on my W7 work PC to my home PC running Ubuntu 14.04. I've done this before with the Putty GUI and had no issues at all, but this time I was using cmd line and it never did connect. I ran this command:
Code:

putty -ssh -D 1080 -P 22 domain.com

The Putty window opened but never connected. I tried twice and when it didn't connect, I gave up and went back to the GUI. I connected with the GUI just fine, but after connecting an SSH session to my Ubuntu server at home, I noticed it was acting odd.

Long story short: It was in a "read-only" mode, saying the file system was read-only. I couldn't run apt-get update or even create a new folder in my Home folder or desktop. I remotely rebooted the machine and it never came back online.

When I got home I checked it, and it told me that Ubuntu had found some errors, and was asking if I wanted to correct them. I said yes and it took a short while, but then finally let me log back in.

After this, the box is about 90-95% back to normal except for a couple of odd things that I don't understand.

The main issue is that my Samba shared drives are no longer working. The fstab file looks the same and can connect to other machines, but nothing can connect back to the Ubuntu box. The folder permissions are correct also. I have a CentOS7 box, a Fedora laptop and a W7 box - none of them can connect to my Ubuntu box. I only run Samba and connect with it, even from Linux boxes, just to make it simple (since Windows is stupid and can't use NFS) - this has always worked in the past. Now for the life of me, I can't figure out why nothing will connect.

Is there a logfile or trouble-shooter I could look at it see what happened? It should be in /var/log somewhere, but I don't know where to start. SSH? Samba? The entire filesystem was read-only for a short while, so is there a FS or System log in /var/log?

I am kinda confused on this one, any help is appreciated.

hello everyone.,
i am using linux Centos 6 machine, i have downloaded "back in time" through command line.
but i dont know how to install "back in time" from the command line.
i found some commands but that for UBUNTU and not running on Centos 6, giving error.
so , without GUI. can be possible to install and use it?????

thanks in advance..

I just built a computer and decided to give ubuntu a shot. It's a desktop, and hooking it up to Ethernet is a tad bit inconvenient as things stand, so I'm really reeling to figure out how to get this Netgear adapter to work. It's an AC1200, got it at Best Buy, and it comes with a CD with drivers for Windows. I don't seem to be able to install it.

This is my first post here and my first computer that I built, so I really have no clue if I've messed up somewhere down the line. That being said, I'd really appreciate if someone could help me with this one.

It looks like my kernel version is 3.13.0-32-generic and my Ubuntu version is 14.04.1, if that's important. I haven't messed with the settings at all yet, so pretend you're talking to a monkey that just installed Ubuntu with no idea what he's doing.

How to debug class file i.e .cc and other files line by line in ubuntu 12.04, is there any command in ubuntu?

Hello--

I'm trying to locate a file or a command line in a file on my hard drive. I am running Ubuntu 12.05.4 linux. Is there a grep command that will search the whole tree from root down to all the sub-directories?

Thank You.

Hi
I've just this minute joined the forum. A message suggested I post my first question so here it is:
I'm using Kubuntu. I know it's Ubuntu with KDE , but I'm just wondering what others think: which is better - ordinary Ubuntu or Kubuntu? I know I can try them out for myself, but I'm just wondering what the consensus of opinion is.

Hello everyone,

I would like to learn more about linux with a view to working with it in some way (linux heads get paid very well in my country).

I was wondering if people could tell me what I need to be learning?
I am quite a beginner. I can use a standard windows based pc to do some things, however I have not worked with the command line.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
KM

Hello!
I'm pretty new to the world of Linux. Right now I use Ubuntu Desktop 14.04 Later down the road I plan to install LAMP to try to run a web server.
Generally speaking, I prefer GUI (as most people, I guess), though I have no problem with CLI (remember myself in 1990 with MS-DOS).
As a regular user I don't think I really need a firewall in Ubuntu. Sticking to installation defaults is fine by me. But as an admin of a web server, I would think that I'm gonna need something beyond the Desktop ed. defaults security-wise. I'm aware of IPtables, of course. But to me it seems a little bit too much to learn, too steep of a learning curve right now. Then there's ufw.
And a GUI front-end of it, which is Gufw. Here opinions vary. Some say, I must learn IPtables, others think that Gufw does its job fine.
So what I'm asking here is not just an OPINION, but also a reasoning behind it. Real life example maybe etc.
Thank you.

Hi folks,

after googling for a couple of days, I get the feeling, this is a common problem. But the usual fix doesn't seem to work for me.

I am trying to install Linux on a separate partition of my Acer Aspire V5-573G. I used the Lili USB Creator to make a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu 12.04 on it.

when I reach the installation menu, it doesn't matter what I choose (start live, install..), my notebook will always freeze on a black screen.

I figured out how to add 'nomodeset' to the grub line. This does bring me one step further (the Ubuntu start screen) but then I get this message:

Code:

ubuntu@ubuntu:^^$ [   20.267422] mei 0000:00:16.0: init hw failure. 
[   20.267558] mei 0000:00:16.0: initialization failed.

After pressing enter I get a command line. From here I don't know what to do.

I've tried other distros (Lubuntu, Linux Mint), but then even 'nomodeset' didn't make a difference. I have also tried to add 'acpi=off' to the grub line after 'nomodeset', but again only black, even with Ubuntu.

Any suggestion or help will be greatly appreciated!