[TriLUG] live ubuntu [ Was Re: booting an external disk with grub 0.97 ]

[Nikolas Everett via TriLUG]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, Alan Porter via TriLUG wrote:
>
>
>>  I tried the debian-live-standard usb stick.
>>>
>>
>> In general, I would imagine you'd have better luck with the Ubuntu live
>> USB stick, since their manta is "it just works".  Debian's mantra is "just
>> the free (license) stuff".
>>
>
> have ubuntu running live from a usb stick and have configured wifi (thank
> you).
>
> I couldn't find vi, but I did find gedit and wrote hello_world.py. However
> I can't find an xterm amongst the all the really useful desktop
> applications (like the highly prized "Amazon" app). Any idea how I can
> invoke an xterm?
>

It called "Terminal" in my menus so I assume its the same on the live usb.

I expect gvim isn't installed by default but vim is.

Nik