Useful links for ubuntu beginners and solutions to common problems

Common Specific Tasks

Graphic Card Drivers
List of ATI supported cards: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsAti
ATI Drivers: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu
Nvidia Drivers: http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Latest_Nvidia_Edgy

Screen Resolution Problems https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FixVideoResolutionHowto

Getting Support for Restricted/Proprietary Formats (mp3, playing DVDs, windows media, quicktime, etc): https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
mp3 support in amaroK: http://strabes.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/get-mp3-support-for-amarok-in-kubuntu-linux/

NTFS with read/write support: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217009

Restoring GRUB after a Windows install:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows
http://supergrub.forjamari.linex.org/

Resizing Partitions: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
Beginner Questions

Installing Software:
http://cutlersoftware.com/ubuntuinstall/
http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftware

What is a Repository?: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories

Managing Repositories: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu

File Permissions and Editing Files that Belong to Root: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/permissions

Introduction to the Command Line http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/CommandLineBeginners

What is “sudo” ? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

Basic Commands: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BasicCommands
http://www.linuxcommand.org/
Great Information Resources

Great for beginners with tons of howtos: http://www.ubuntuguide.org/

Ubuntu Community Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/

How to Help Yourself: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=812448