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Linux Desktop Hacks
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Linux Desktop Hacks

by Nicholas Petreley, Jono Bacon
March 2005
Beginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Credits
UK, the KDE Usability Study, KDE::Enterprise, and the Infopoint Project. He
currently works on various free software projects, as well as for OpenAdvan-
tage in Birmingham, UK, as a professional open source consultant.
Contributors
The following people contributed their writing, code, and inspiration to
Linux Desktop Hacks:
Thomas Adam
[Hack #9] has been using Linux since 1996. He has used a
range of distributions but currently runs Debian. He is an active mem-
ber of an online magazine, the Linux Gazette, for which he has written
several articles. He also is a member of The Answer Gang.
Jim Aspinwall
[Hack #99] is the coauthor and author of four books about
computers and networking. His writing spans not only books but fea-
ture articles and how-to columns for a handful of PC magazines and
web sites, including Computer User, PC World, and CNET.com. His
hack can also be found in his book PC Hacks (O’Reilly).
Adrian Bradshaw
[Hack #57] is a network engineer and open source
enthusiast.
David Brickner
[Hacks #69 and #87] is an editor at O’Reilly Media, Inc.,
where he works on Linux and system administration books. He is the
author of Test Driving Linux (O’Reilly).
John Cheng
[Hack #65] is an enthusiastic teenage Linux user. John has
toyed with Linux and FreeBSD for years, and enjoys it.
Paul Cooper
[Hack #31] is the Assistant Director of OpenAdvantage, the
first independently funded vendor-neutral ...
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