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Moving to Ubuntu Linux

Moving to Ubuntu Linux

by Marcel Gagné (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

    $11.00
Synopsis

Discover Ubuntu, Today's Hottest Linux

Everyone's talking about Ubuntu-it's not just 100% free, it's the most useful, practical desktop Linux ever! Now, Linux expert Marcel Gagne reveals Ubuntu's amazing power and helps you migrate from Windows faster than you ever thought possible.

Moving to Ubuntu Linux will teach you how to do virtually anything with Ubuntu-write documents, create spreadsheets, surf the Web, use email, listen to music, watch movies, and play games.

  • Install Ubuntu fast, with easy, step-by-step instructions
  • Take control, with the GNOME desktop environment and Nautilus file manager
  • Browse the Internet using Firefox, the powerful browser that's quickly replacing Microsoft Internet Explorer
  • Find and install all the software you'll ever need, with Ubuntu's powerful Synaptic package manager
  • Send email, track contacts, create calendars, and manage all your personal information with Evolution
  • Organize digital photos, rip music, burn and play CDs, watch movies, create graphics, and more
  • Discover the world of Linux games, and learn how to run Windows games on your Ubuntu PC
  • Set up an efficient, convenient network for your home or small business
  • Customize your desktop so it's perfectly comfortable and totally efficient


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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 496
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Addison Wesley
Published: 17 Aug 2006
ISBN 10: 032142722X
ISBN 13: 9780321427229
Book Overview: Everyone's guide to the Ubuntu Linux desktop, meant for the mainstream user. It is also geared toward all the Ubuntu users out there who, for the moment, have no book reference. The book includes a chapter on how to add the KDE desktop environment to the system, thereby making it an excellent tie-in to Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye! Readers will walk away with a real understanding and appreciation of Ubuntu Linux as a desktop operating system. And with the comfort and confidence necessary to do those things with Linux that they have grown used to doing under Windows. This includes work as well as play.

Media Reviews

This is a splendid way of easing folks into Linux. A live DVD of Ubuntu means that no install is necessary. Another fine job by Gagne. --Peter Salus, Editor, UnixReview.com

Author Bio

Marcel Gagne is best known as author of the Linux Journal's Cooking with Linux series, which has earned the magazine's Readers' Choice award for favorite column four years in a row, and as the regular Linux Guy on G4/TechTV Canada. His books include Moving to the Linux Business Desktop and Linux Administration: A User's Guide (both from Addison-Wesley.) He is one of the Linux world's most familiar and respected voices.