[Vinska]

Originally Posted by xvi

1. http://www.opencobol.org/ (First thing to come up in Google)

*sigh* why are You using google for that...

Spoiler

vinis@g44:~$ apt-cache show ^.*cobol.*
Package: open-cobol
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 581
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.1-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libcob1, dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info, libcob1-dev (= 1.1-1), libgmp3-dev, libltdl3-dev, libdb-dev, libncurses5-dev
Filename: pool/universe/o/open-cobol/open-cobol_1.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 239068
MD5sum: aa6ef3f096dbb0c2bbe4ed480682a1ed
SHA1: aaad2fc1ad5d16d98491a4759d3d31845d867e06
SHA256: 9482987a60d1740f39e5e561d3c316c345ead40c299cb8ad8e28acb6d9061182
Description-en: COBOL compiler
 OpenCOBOL implements substantial part of the COBOL 85 and COBOL 2002
 standards, as well as many extensions of the existent compilers.  OpenCOBOL
 translates COBOL into C and compiles the translated code using GCC.
Homepage: http://www.opencobol.org/
Description-md5: 18e57e364b19546b8b96a83e1db8017d
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu

mafia97, You can get a COBOL compiler with this:

sudo apt-get install open-cobol

Sorry that I forgot about this one when I wrote my previous post.

Originally Posted by xvi

Remember that Linux on the desktop is only user friendly when you're doing things that Ubuntu has preconfigured for you. Anything after that is going to be a long day of "sudo chmod 755" this and "./configure; make; make install" that. (..and the occasional "sudo rm -rf /" when you hate everything.)

Don't write such things. That will only give FUD for most non-veterans. And writing about "sudo rm -rf /", without explaining it's just a joke, is just plain wrong. As someone might just try to run it.
NOTE: DON'T run "sudo rm -rf /". It DELETES Your whole filesystem. i.e. it WIPES your HDDs!!! So DON'T do it!!!