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Beginning Ubuntu Linux: From Novice to Professional [With CDROM]

AUTHOR Thomas, Keir
PUBLISHER Apress (03/27/2007)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Hardcover)

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This edition is the update to the best-selling first edition introducing Ubuntu Linux. Adapted from the best-selling first edition, this book guides readers through the most commonly desired yet confusing concepts and tasks confronted by new Linux users. It includes even more information regarding hardware integration and the many evolutionary changes to the Ubuntu interface. Purposely focused on end users to satisfy the growing interest in migrating away from Windows to the increasingly mature Linux desktop platform, this book serves as a guide to a rapid and transparent familiarization of those features most treasured by general and power desktop users alike.

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ISBN-13: 9781590598207
ISBN-10: 1590598202
Content Language: English
Edition Number: 0002
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Page Count: 684
Carton Quantity: 5
Product Dimensions: 6.86 x 1.49 x 9.08 inches
Weight: 2.58 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents, Glossary, Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
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Computers | Operating Systems - Linux
Computers | Software Development & Engineering - General
Dewey Decimal: 005.432
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Covering many of the desktop-specific tasks that have haunted Linux users for years, this edition is updated to provide even more information regarding hardware integration and the many evolutionary changes to the Ubuntu interface. It includes a DVD containing the latest version of Ubuntu and hundreds of useful applications.
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This edition is the update to the best-selling first edition introducing Ubuntu Linux. Adapted from the best-selling first edition, this book guides readers through the most commonly desired yet confusing concepts and tasks confronted by new Linux users. It includes even more information regarding hardware integration and the many evolutionary changes to the Ubuntu interface. Purposely focused on end users to satisfy the growing interest in migrating away from Windows to the increasingly mature Linux desktop platform, this book serves as a guide to a rapid and transparent familiarization of those features most treasured by general and power desktop users alike.

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Author: Thomas, Keir
Keir Thomas has been writing about computers for nearly two decades and is the author of the best-selling Mac Kung Fu and Ubuntu Kung Fu, also from Pragmatic Bookshelf. The author of more than ten books, which have been read by more than a million people and translated into many languages, Keir formerly edited computer magazines. He lives in England with two cats.
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