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 enlarge | Authors: Benjamin Mako Hill, Jono Bacon, Ivan Krstic, David J. Murphy, Jonathan Jesse, Peter Savage, Corey Burger
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Category: Book
List Price: $34.99
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Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 523578
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.8 x 1.3
ISBN: 0132354136
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.432
EAN: 9780132354134
ASIN: 0132354136
Publication Date: July 12, 2007
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 The Oficial Ubuntu Book December 7, 2007
This is a great book for anyone starting off with Linux. Ubuntu is an easy to use distibution with all the mainsteam advantages and sets up like a dream. It runs much faster than than expected and has many neat features. It can be as geeky as you like or simply tame and straightforward to use as a package.
The Official Ubuntu Book (2nd Edition)
Terry Bicknell
UBUNTU: ONE OF THE BEST PRODUCTS IN THIS DECADE December 6, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been a Ubuntu user for a few months now and decided to write a review to help others.
This book is a must-have for Ubuntu Users (existing / new) and anyone who want to have a better Operating System (I think not only better, but also best). This book covers all the essentials topics that any Ubuntu User would like to cover.
I really got inspired by the Ubuntu Promise (No commercial intention), Ubuntu Philosophy of Software Freedom and community support. I'm impressed with the Ubuntu's simplicity / user-friendliness / power / security etc.
Best of all, Ubuntu comes with all the best open source / free software (Open Office, Firefox,etc.) and has a strong community and is growing super fast.
The authors have done an excellent job of explaining all the core topics of Ubuntu. Thanks to the great minds behind the Ubuntu, GNU/Linux, Open Office and the Open Source / Free Software Community.
Recommended November 22, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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The Official Ubuntu Book is useful for both starter or seasoned Linux user. Well written and easy to understand.
I would suggest that any one interested in using the linux operating system. should start with this book. It contains the system DVD, so, it is a complete item...
Bob
Everyone should buy it, but none-the-less it has flaws November 5, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a must have book for anyone who (like myself) has invested the time and effort to install and use Ubuntu. It gives the big picture about Ubuntu and contains information that is tremendously helpful. For example, it explains all about the "Alternate Install CD" and how it can be used to install a LAMP configuation. (LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySql, and Php). It also explains the philosophy of Ubuntu as well as all sorts of Ubuntu options and abilities that would not be evident without this valuable book.
Still, the treatment in this book of how to print remotely to a Windows computer is shockingly incomplete and really inexcusable (even though you still should buy this book). The book is 433 pages long, yet there are only two sentences in the entire book explaining this really important and confusing subject. Here is the entire book's advice, unedited and complete from the book: "If your Windows system is sharing a printer, you will have to specify Samba, which is the standard way to get Linux and Windows systems to communicate with each other. You will still have to specify a print driver as described earlier." That's it. Big help, right? They don't even show a screen shot of the relevant remote printer configuration screen, which in fact is a very confusing screen that asks for options that are not intuitive at all.
For the money the book is a good deal and I'm very happy with it, but that doesn't change the fact that its treatment of printing to a remote Windows computer is shamefully incomplete.
The Official Ubuntu Book September 30, 2007
This is a clear, concise guide for nonprofessionals, non-geeks, for the most user friendly distribution of Linux. Should you be interested in trying linux and you are not a computer professional, take it from a Unix professional that this is the best route for you at this point. Get the book as a guide, but also get the latest distribution dvd, version 7.04, also available from Amazon. Visit the support sites and wiki and you will see how much help is available, and this is growing fast. Best of luck, and I think you will love it.
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