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Linux for Dummies (Paperback)

by DeeAnn LeBlanc (Author)

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Paperback: 446 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 6th Edition edition (25 Feb 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0764579371
ISBN-13: 978-0764579370
Product Dimensions: 23 x 18.6 x 2.8 cm

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“…don’t know where to start, look no further…” (PC Utilities, June 2005)

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Previous editions of Linux For Dummies have garnered rave reviews. However, there’s one scary term applied to them—outdated! The 6^th Edition remedies that with easy–to–understand information on the latest version of the most popular Linux distributions, including Fedora Core, SuSE, Mandrake, Xandros, Linspire, and Knoppix. This guide walks you though installing, configuring, tuning, and using each version of Linux, the low–cost, secure alternative to expensive operating systems. You’ll discover how to:

Prep your computer for Linux
Boot and stop Linux
Connect to the Internet, e–mail, surf the Web, and access and use cool Internet tools
Manage files and directories
Do word processing and more with Open Office.org
Updated material includes:
Info on the wireless Internet connection
Coverage of the new SELinux infrastructure, an important new security feature
Updated GNOME and KDE coverage

Written by Dee–Ann LeBlanc, award–winning author of numerous books and articles and author or coauthor of the popular previous editions of Linux For Dummies, this edition not only guides you step by step, it also includes an appendix of common Linux commands and a comprehensive index so you can find what you need to know without taking extra steps.

The bonus DVD includes:

The full, installable version of Fedora Core 3 and Knoppix
ISO images (that will save hours of downloading time) for SUSE live, Mandrake full version, Xandros Open Circulation version, and Linspire full version

If you want to explore the different distributions of Linux, this is the guide for you!

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1.0 out of 5 stars Hmmmm I think not, 22 April 2006

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I have never reviewed a book before in my life. So it may be a measure of the strength of feeling about this one that I take the time to review it.

However this book is a mass of confusion. It attempts to cover Linux by covering a number of its distribution types. But what you end of with is little coverage of anything. The structure of the book is ill thought out and the cross refrencing is at best inadequate and at worst induces deep deep frustration. Often you are told to go to such and such chapter for the next bit of advice only to find the advice so well hidden that Sherlock Holmes would be left scratching his head, or you eventually arrive to find that there is another reference and so it goes on.

If you ever get close to installation you find that the installation instructions are, surprise surprise, confusing and inadequate.

The instructions on the different desktops are o.k and give an overview.

It is obvious that the author is very skilled and knowledgable in the linux field. Unforetunately they have attempted to cover too much. More is less.

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