Actually 10.04 is EOL as well. Use 12.04 for an LTS.
On a laptop that old installing regular Ubuntu is going to be agonizingly slow. Do give Lubuntu...
You probably didn't check the box to install third-party media plugins at installation. Depending what media player you're using it will give you the...
+1 for tab completion. It's possibly the single handiest feature of the shell.
Keep learning and trying, once you are somewhat familiar with the CLI...
1 GB will be barely enough for vanilla Ubuntu; if you're simply interested in trying Linux and are not insistent upon Ubuntu itself, you may want to...
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