My new year (2006 ) gift is ubuntu's 5 cd-roms. After post my request for about 4 weeks later ubuntu request , Ubuntu send me the ubuntu cd-rom at 2006-01-02 ubuntu receive . Ubuntu is easy for a newbie , but still have lot's new enveronment need to deal with. So I recommend follow link as the first action after install ubuntu : http://www.ubuntu.org.cn/support/documentation/zhfaq/first_install Frankly speaking, I encounter much more problems than unber RedHat AS . the major one is run Eclipse on Ubuntu. Any way , It's good beginning ........... I write this log on Ubuntu , in english for I have not install chinese character input method on my new Ubuntu.