Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Ready for Release!

You should be able to browse into your ntfs drive via places or, really, from the file manager more generally.

I also want to add that it is a good idea to become familiar with synaptic package manager which is a graphical front end for apt.

System->Admin->Synaptic

It will allow you to run a wider search for packages than add/remove.

This may seem like a pain in the butt instead of downloading a self-installing .exe file, but the nice thing is that linux keeps track of and orders its dependencies to maintain system integrity--whereas in windows you eventually end up in .dll hell as the registry tries to cope with adding and removing programs.

 

Yeah im able to access the windows partition but im not able to access the music folder under documents and settings..
There are no folders visible in documents and settings when i navigate to it in linux..

Yeah, spent my entire morning fiddling with it

 

Anybody who hasn't installed the new Ubuntu but is still interested in it, you can watch this guy go over it Live now.

http://www.category5.tv/

There's also a chatroom where you can ask him anything and he'll answer you on the spot.

 

I've installed Xubuntu and am in the process of testing out various linux distro's but i'll watch his live cast anyway. =]

 

Sweet deal. The site is really great, very helpful with Linux stuff.