This newbie's guide to Ubuntu lets readers learn by doing. Using immersion-learning techniques favored by language courses, step-by-step projects build upon earlier tutorial concepts, stimulating the brain and increasing the reader's understanding. It also covers all the topics likely to be of interest to an average desktop user, such as installing new software via Synpatic; Internet connectivity; working with removable storage devices, printers, and scanners; and handling DVDs, audio files, and even iPods. It also eases readers into the world of commands, thus allowing them to work with Java, Python or other script-based applications; converting RPMs to DEB files; and compiling software from source.
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Rickford Grant, author of Linux for Non-Geeks and Linux Made Easy (both No Starch Press), has been a computer operating system maniac for more than 20 years.
From the Atari XL600 to today's Linux machines, he has been the guy behind the help desk for family, friends, and colleagues.
Rickford currently resides in Raritan, New Jersey, where he spends his working hours as a teacher and his free time cycling along the Delaware and Raritan Canal or annoying his neighbors with his Nyckelharpa (a Swedish key fiddle).
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An excellent concept brilliantly executed. Got me up an running in minutes. My hope is that more IT stuff gets the same treatment.
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I am familiar with Windows but this knowledge only helps in general terms when it comes to Linux and this guide is essential in getting to know Linux, how it works and where to look for further information: the author does a good job of "marketing" this imperfect system. It's not suitable for those already familiar with it.
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Ubuntu for Non-Geeks: A Pain-free, Project-based, Get-things-done Guidebook
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Ubuntu for Non-Geeks: A Pain-free, Project-based, Get-things-done Guidebook
An excellent book. It may seem daunting at first, but this is a reference book, not a book to be read from cover to cover. I decided to move to the Ubuntu version of the Linux operating system in 2006. This book has (I'm now 82) eased the move considerably. As a pensioner of limited means, I have been able to take advantage of a free operating system and the free software that goes with it. Something I could not have afforded with the usual commercial system and software and it has allowed me to shop at Amazon.
An excellent book. It may seem daunting at first, but this is a reference book, not a book to be read from cover to cover. I decided to move to the Ubuntu version of the Linux operating system in 2006. This book has (I'm now 82) eased the move considerably. As a pensioner of limited means, I have been able to take advantage of a free operating system and the free software that goes with it. Something I could not have afforded with the usual commercial system and software and it has allowed me to shop at Amazon.
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