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Author:   Marcel Gagne
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 17.90cm
Weight:   0.726kg
ISBN:  

9780321427229

ISBN 10:   032142722
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   31 August 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xix Foreword xxi Chapter 1: Introducing Ubuntu! 1 But What Is Linux? 2 Is Linux Really FREE? 4 What's a Distribution? 4 Linux and the GPL 5 What Do I Gain? 5 What Do I Lose? 7 Some Tips on Using This Book 8 Quick Tips and Shelling Out 9 Meet Your Desktop 9 Help Me! 10 About the DVD 12 It's My Philosophy 13 Resources 14 Chapter 2: Running and Installing the Ubuntu Live DVD 15Ready to Try Ubuntu Linux? 17 HELP! 18 Installing the Ubuntu Live DVD 31 Remember to Share 40 Resources 40 Chapter 3: Getting Your Hands Dirty (Desktop Overview) 41Getting to Know You . . . GNOME 42 Logging In 43 Becoming One with the Desktop 44 Your First Application 46 Windows, Title Bars, and Menus, Oh My! 48 Command Central 52 A Polite Introduction to the Command Line 54 Give Me More! 55 Changing Your Password; It's All About You! 56 User Security 58 Much Ado About sudo 60 I Need More Help! 61 Logging Out 62 Navigating Your Ubuntu Desktop 64 Resources 64 Chapter 4: Navigating Nautilus 65Files, Directories, and the Root of All Things 66 Wherever You Go . . . 70 Search Me . . . 71 Navigating Networks 75 Uh, Roger, Copy That . . . 78 Creating New Folders 79 Copying Files and Directories (and Moving, Too!) 80 Deleting Files and Folders 86 Other Interesting Places to Visit 87 My World, My Way 88 Making Your Home a Home 88 Chapter 5: Customizing Your Desktop (or Making Your World Your Own) 89I Am Sovereign of All I Survey . . . 90 Save My Screen, Please! 93 Moving Things Around 95 Is That a Theme or a Motif? 98 Adding Icons and Shortcuts to Your Desktop 102 Applets Galore: Back to the Panel! 106 Miscellaneous Changes 109 Resources 109 Chapter 6: Printers and Other Hardware 111Yes, It Runs with Linux! 112 Plug and Play 113 Printers and Printing 114 Getting Familiar with Your Other Hardware 123 Modems versus Winmodems 129 What? More Devices? 132 Resources 133 Chapter 7: Connecting to the Internet 135Before You Begin 136 Getting on the Net 137 Connecting to the Net with a Modem 137 Cable Modems and High-Speed DSL 143 Going Wireless 144 Okay, I'm Connected-Now What? 146 Resources 147 Chapter 8: Installing New Applications 149Linux and Security 150 Identifying Software Packages 151 The Simplest Way to Add Applications 151 The Synaptic Package Manager 155 Installing Software with Synaptic 158 Keeping Ubuntu Up-to-Date 162 DEBs, the Shell Way 164 Chapter 9: Instant Messaging, and IRC, Too! 169Why Jabber? 170 Instant Messaging with Gaim 170 IRC: Internet Relay Chat 176 Resources 182 Chapter 10: Surfing the Net with Firefox 183Mozilla versus Firefox 184 Extending Firefox 193 Wrapping Up-Other Browsers to Consider 196 Resources 197 Chapter 11: Evolution: Email and More! 199Be Prepared . . . 200 Evolution 200 Sending and Receiving Mail 204 Your Little Black Book 207 Attached to You . . . 209 Other Options 210 Resources 210 Chapter 12: Evolution: Keeping Organized 211Evolution and Planning 212 Resources 223 Chapter 13: OpenOffice.org Writer (It Was a Dark and Stormy Night . . .) 225Getting Started with OpenOffice.org Writer 226 Alternative Word Processor Choices 244 Resources 244 Chapter 14: OpenOffice.org Calc (Tables You Can Count On) 245 Starting a New Spreadsheet and Entering Data 246 Nice, Colorful, Impressive, and Dynamic Graphs 252 Final Touches 255 Alternatives 257 Resources 257 Chapter 15: OpenOffice.org Impress (For When You Need to Impress Someone) 259Getting Ready to Impress 260 Instant Web Presentations 270 So What's with the Penguin? 275 Extra! Extra! 276 Alternatives 277 Resources 277 Chapter 16: OpenOffice.org Base 279The Beginning: Creating a New Database 280 Setting the Table 284 Creating Mailing Labels 289 Further Exploring 293 Resources 294 Chapter 17: Digital Art with the GIMP 295Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your GIMP 296 Printing Your Masterpiece 303 Tools, Tools, and More Tools 305 On to the Tool Icons 306 Touching Up Photographs 314 What Is Script-Fu? 317 Resources 317 Chapter 18: If Music Be the Food of Love . . . (Ubuntu Linux Multimedia) 319Adjusting the Levels 320 Playing Audio CDs with the Sound Juicer 321 A Simpler CD Player 323 Ripping and Burning Songs 324 Playing Your Songs 329 Can You Feel the Burn? 331 Put Another Nickel In . . . 340 Resources 345 Chapter 19: Would You Like to Play a Game? (Very Serious Fun) 347Ubuntu Preinstalled Games 348 Must-Have Linux Games 364 More Games! I Need More Games! 368 Resources 369 Chapter 20: Turning Ubuntu into Kubuntu 371Installing the Kubuntu Desktop 372 Doing It with the Shell 379 Resources 379 Chapter 21: Taking Command of Ubuntu Linux 381Linux Commands: An Easy Start 382 Working with Files 384 A Peek at Metacharacters 386 File Permissions in the Shell 386 More on rm (or, Oops! I didn't really mean that ) 389 Making Your Life Easier with alias 389 Standard Input and Standard Output 392 Pipes and Piping 394 Linux Commands: Working with Directories 397 There's No Place Like $HOME 399 More on File Permissions 399 User and Group Ownership 400 Who Was That Masked User? 403 Finding Anything 405 Processes 409 Working with Editors 416 Resources 424 Appendix A: The GNU General Public License 425 Index 435

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

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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.

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