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 enlarge | Authors: Jonathan Oxer, Kyle Rankin, Bill Childers
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Rating:  28 reviews
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Format: Illustrated
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Pages: 447
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 6.1 x 1
ISBN: 0596527209
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.43
EAN: 9780596527204
ASIN: 0596527209
Publication Date: June 14, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 Well Worth the Price February 25, 2008
I did not read this book cover-to-cover. I bounced around reading the chapters that interested me. Good stuff.
The book contains useful detail regarding common problems or tasks. It contained some answers that I needed at the moment, which left me pleased. I recommend combining Hacks with another general-overview Ubuntu book.
Some books contain numerous errors. I am too new to Ubuntu to review the accuracy of the step-by-step procedures in this book.
 Not really that good August 25, 2007
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
It is a slow read and really doesn't help you to understand what you are doing.
 ~Great book for anyone wanting to give Ubuntu a try~ August 8, 2007
I have been using UBUNTU now for about 6-8 months. I LOVE it so much makes me wonder why I used Windows operating system for so long. After using it we decided to get this hand book to learn the tweaks for some programs that were not working properly ... this will give you a lot of great advice & tip's to getting the best experience while using UBUNTU. After researching all the different book for getting the most out this amazing operating system ... we settled on this one & were not disappointed!! Would highly recommend to everyone!
 a little dissapointed, but perhaps my fault July 23, 2007
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I expected a lot more from this book, since it is part of the "Hacks" series, and coming from O'Reilly, I expected it to be a little more interesting. But there is not much in here that cannot be found in the official Ubuntu documentation on their site, or in the community wiki, also on that site. There are a few hacks that are pretty neat, like building your own version of the live-cd, keeping settings for live sessions in flash memory, and buying iTunes music, but the there is stuff like "How to play DVDs," or "Get productive with applications." Also, as a warning, some of the hacks are more geared toward the Ubuntu distribution, rather than the KDE desktop, Kubuntu. It doesn't matter that much, since they are so similar, but somethings don't translate perfectly. For instance, if you are running Kubuntu and want to use the search-your-computer hack, it uses beagle, which is a GNOME app and requires installation of GNOME dependencies which can take up a lot space on top of KDE's own.
I probably should have researched the book more, but if someone else is looking at this for more exciting, technical, and in-depth hacks that detail getting the most out of Ubuntu, look elsewhere. For beginners who want a print manual that is clear, well laid out, and details ways to use this excellent OS, it is spot on. I am glad I bought it, but I am continuing to shop for more hardcore Linux hacks.
Useful and clear June 3, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Providing 100 useful modifications and procedures to making an Ubuntu system even more useful than a standard distribution, "Ubuntu Hacks" is written clearly, succinctly and with useful end-results in mind.
Chapters are differentiated by the type of "hack" (e.g., Multimedia, Package Management, Security, SoHo Server) or level of difficulty (beginner, moderate and expert), meaning that there really is something for everyone. It is a clever and useful breakdown.
The overwhelming majority of the book has very high utility in the various elaborations to the Ubuntu base-system, which means one can avoid the somewhat tedious process of investigation package 'X' in terms of "will this be useful to me". Obviously in some cases (e.g., "set up a mail server") only the most minimal set of instructions can be given, but these are usually the one's which are most useful.
Whilst there are a couple of issues I would have done differently (e.g., include a small FAT 32 partition for swapping files between OSs when doing a Windows/Ubuntu dual boot) these are fairly trivial to what is, overall, an excellent product which is recommended for any Ubuntu user who wants to tweak their system to maximise utility and performance.
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