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lozioditalia said:
Yeah, I’ve now installed Bodhi Linux. Later on I’ll try to get the hang of it and better understand how it works.
To speed things up during the installation, I left the international settings on US and the time appears to be set to Moscow, so I’ll probably need to reinstall it.
Well!! If the experience is positive, I’ll install it right away on my main netbook as well.



I’ll keep you updated and let you know what I like the most. Also, whenever I have doubts about some commands or about how certain applications work, I won’t hesitate to ask for your advice.
I’m happy to give it a new life and to be able to use it again like a normal notebook, including connecting to the Internet, whereas until a few days ago it was lying forgotten and was practically unusable. :)(y)
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Here's a little something that might be of some assistance:

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bodhilinux.boards.net

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automate dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

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sudo ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Dublin /etc/localtime
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata
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If
Europe/Dublin
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isn't your time zone, you can list available time zones using e.g.:
ls -hAl /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/
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in the terminal.
 
If you're not ready for the command line or prefer to use the menus there's likely to be am option to change the date and time settings under the System menu as indicated in slapo's link. You may need to unlock changing the date and time with your root (sudo) password which is the password you were asked to provide when you installed it.

Incidentally I quite like the "fuzzy" clock option in some distros which shows you the time in words rounded to the nearest five minutes, e.g. "quarter to nine"

Do you have a particular use for the netbook in mind yet?
 
NotTheStig said:
If you're not ready for the command line or prefer to use the menus there's likely to be am option to change the date and time settings under the System menu as indicated in slapo's link. You may need to unlock changing the date and time with your root (sudo) password which is the password you were asked to provide when you installed it.

Incidentally I quite like the "fuzzy" clock option in some distros which shows you the time in words rounded to the nearest five minutes, e.g. "quarter to nine"

Do you have a particular use for the netbook in mind yet?
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Not yet. Where should I use the sudo command?
 
slapo said:
Here's a little something that might be of some assistance:

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bodhilinux.boards.net

Also from here:
serverfault.com

automate dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

I'm using puppet to admin a cluster of debian servers. I need to change the timezone of each machine on the cluster. The proper debian way to do this is to use dpkg-reconfigure tzdata. But I can ...
serverfault.com serverfault.com


If isn't your time zone, you can list available time zones using e.g.: in the terminal.
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Thank you. Is there an option where I can select it and find the terminal?
 
lozioditalia said:
Not yet. Where should I use the sudo command?
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You can run sudo from the terminal.
It's telling the system you want to run a program as a super user (a user with administrative privileges).
For example,
sudo time
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would run the
time
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program as a super user. It's going to prompt you for your password before running the program as a means of verifying that it's really you.
lozioditalia said:
Thank you. Is there an option where I can select it and find the terminal?
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I'm not very familiar with Bodhi Linux, but you can probably find it in either the Accessories or System Tools menu that are visible in the photo you shared earlier.
 
Apparently Terminology is the name of the app that runs Terminal in Bodhi Linux.
Just be careful running commands especially as sudo; people on this forum won't be malicious but if you find commands elsewhere online I would ideally Google/Chat GPT them first to be sure you know what they do. Using sudo you can damage things like deleting parts of the operating system if you take someone's commands on blind faith.
 
So far, on Bodhi Linux, I’ve managed to change the settings and language to Italian, though I haven’t yet managed to change the date and time. I’ve also installed Tiny Core on another notebook, which I think is even older – from 2008, I believe.
It seems much simpler.
 
@lozioditalia I should mention that, should you have a newer computer, you might be able to also use something like VirtualBox to install Linux distributions in a virtual machine, which should be mostly isolated from what's on the rest of your computer and try things there without much worry.
 
I found an online Linux guide that also includes a list of commands, along with scripts and descriptions of their functions.
I’m practicing to get familiar with them: remembering so many commands can be challenging at first, but I believe it’s just a matter of practice and habit.
 
lozioditalia said:
I found an online Linux guide that also includes a list of commands, along with scripts and descriptions of their functions.
I’m practicing to get familiar with them: remembering so many commands can be challenging at first, but I believe it’s just a matter of practice and habit.
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You probably won't need most of them for daily computing, just on the odd occasion when you'd need to change some settings the distrubution has no GUI for.
Still, not harm in learning (especially if you were to practice in a virtual machine).
 
slapo said:
You probably won't need most of them for daily computing, just on the odd occasion when you'd need to change some settings the distrubution has no GUI for.
Still, not harm in learning (especially if you were to practice in a virtual machine).
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Regarding security, how often is it essential to regularly update packages?
Firewalls and antivirus on Linux are useful but only optional, right?
 
lozioditalia said:
Regarding security, how often is it essential to regularly update packages?
Firewalls and antivirus on Linux are useful but only optional, right?
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Firewall isn't, but most distributions have it on by default these days.
I generally update things daily, because it takes little time, or when I next boot into Linux.
 
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