Repositories

Repositories is where your Ubuntu will search for available packages to be install. The list of repositories is saved in /etc/apt/sources.list

This is my sources.list file

#deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.04 _Hoary Hedgehog_ - Release i386 (20050407)]/ hoary main restricted


deb http://id.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted
deb-src http://id.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://id.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted
deb-src http://id.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://id.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe
deb-src http://id.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security universe

deb http://id.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary multiverse
deb-src http://id.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary multiverse

## Backports
#deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Wine Official Package Mirror
deb http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/ binary/
deb-src http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/ source/

You can edit your sources.list file by invoking this command:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

After editing your sources.list file, you should update the packages cache by invoking this command:

sudo apt-get update

Done! Now you have more applications to play with :)

Installing Modem

The Ethernet Card and WiFi is detected and running well out of the box. But the modem is not. So I have to install sl-modem driver for my modem.
From "lspci" command, I get this for my modem:

0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)

Then I install the sl-modem daemon:

sudo apt-get install sl-modem-daemon

Now I can autodetect my modem in the network setting. But I haven't test it yet.

Why I Use Ubuntu?

My primary Operating System was Windows. From the first time I lay my hand on computers, I have been using MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
I was working part time as a technical staff in my former campus Parahyangan Catholic Univesity. They are using FreeBSD as the main Operating System for their servers. That's when my curiousity about UNIX and Linux Operating System.
At that time, RedHat still the most famous Linux OS. I've installed it in my own PC. I was thrilled. But that time, the GUI still sucks :p So I play around with it for a while and uninstall it again.

Then I tried, installing Mandrake (now it's called Mandriva). And again I just playing around with it and uninstall it again.

2 months ago I asked my lecturer, what's the good Linux OS for notebook. And he says Ubuntu. So I downloaded the Ubuntu Live CD. And I almost can believe that it can almost detect all my notebook hardware. By the way, the notebook I'm using is a NEC Versa M540.
The I downloaded the Ubuntu Install CD, and install it on my notebook. And I'm still using it :)