Ubuntu 101

Ok, so you’ve decided to use Ubuntu for good ?
You’ve downloaded & burned or have been snail-mailed a free CD with the magical Unbuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger!
Good!
You’ve installed it? Wunderbar!
But now what to do ?
First get to the internet. Remember, Best Beloved, Linux (I insist on calling it Linux, even if it is only the kernel name… Back, flame, back) is unusable without internet, and high-end distros (Debian tainted like Ubuntu, or Fedora/Red Hat, or Suse, or others…) rely heavily on the internet for upgrading and/or adding packages.
So we need internet…