Book description
The new edition of this best-selling guide to Ubuntu for beginners covers Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx. Grant tackles topics likely to be of interest to the average desktop user such as installing software; connecting to the Internet; working with flash drives, printers, and scanners; burning CDs and DVDs; playing audio and video; using iPods; customization; and even a bit of the command line. Based on reader feedback, this edition includes even more screenshots and visuals; more troubleshooting help; more specific tips and tricks; and a bit more technical stuff, in plain English of course.
Table of contents
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UBUNTU FOR NON-GEEKS
- PRAISE FOR UBUNTU FOR NON-GEEKS
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
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1. BECOMING A PENGUINISTA
- What Is Linux?
- About the Penguin
- Why Should You Use Linux?
- But Is Linux Really Ready for the Desktop?
- What Is a Distribution?
- What Is Ubuntu?
- Why Ubuntu Then?
- Hardware Compatibility
- Hardware Requirements
- Good News for 64-Bit Machine Users
- Mixed News for Mac Users
- Speaking Ubuntu
- Where Do I Go from Here?
- 2. WADING AND DIVING
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3. A NEW PLACE TO CALL HOME
- Welcome to the GNOME Desktop
- The Top Panel
- The Bottom Panel
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Project 3A: Customizing the GNOME Panel
- 3A-1: Adding Utility Buttons to the Panel
- 3A-2: Adding Amusing Applets to the Panel
- 3A-3: Adding a Program Launcher to the Panel
- Method 2
- 3A-4: Changing Panel Launcher Icons
- 3A-5: Adding a Drawer to the Panel
- 3A-6: Adding Program Launchers to the Drawer
- 3A-7: Adding the Entire Contents of a Menu to the Panel
- 3A-8: Moving Things Around on the Panel
- More Panel Fun
- Project 3B: Manipulating Menus
- Virtual Desktops
- Wanda Revisited—GNOME Easter Eggs
- Shutting Down
- 4. MORE THAN WEBBED FEET
- 5. SLIPPING AND SLIDING
- 6. ROUNDING OUT THE BIRD
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7. A TIDY NEST
- Nautilus: Your File Manager
- File Handling in Nautilus
- Navigating in Nautilus
- Understanding the Linux Filesystem
- What's in All Those Other Folders?
- Using Nautilus as a Network Browser
- Reading Data CDs and DVDs
- Burning Data CDs and DVDs
- USB Storage Devices
- Working with Bluetooth Devices
- Backing Up Your Files
- Recovering from a Backup
- Removing Unwanted Files
- Project 7: Creating and Extracting Compressed Files
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8. DRESSING UP THE BIRD
- Project 8A: Creating a New User Account
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Project 8B: Customizing Your Desktop Environment
- 8B-1: Adding Emblems to Folders
- 8B-2: Setting Window Backgrounds (and Emblems Again)
- 8B-3: Dolling Up the Side Pane (and Emblems Yet Again)
- 8B-4: Changing the Desktop Background
- 8B-5: Hiding the Bottom Panel
- 8B-6: Downloading and Installing the Art Manager (GNOME Art)
- 8B-7: Changing Window Borders, Controls, and Icon Sets
- 8B-8: Installing Additional Window Borders, Controls, and Icons
- 8B-9: Changing the Order of the Window Buttons
- 8B-10: Placing Home and Trash Icons on the Desktop
- 8B-11: Stretching Desktop Icons
- 8B-12: Doing It All Again!
- Font Feathered Frenzy: Changing Your Fonts
- Project 8C: Installing TrueType Fonts
- Project 8D: Changing Your Login Screen
- Choosing a Screensaver
- Taking Screenshots
- Customizing Visual Effects
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9. SIMPLE KITTEN WAYS
- Meet the Terminal
- Some Goofy Yet Useful Fun with the Command Terminal
- Nontoxic Commands
- Commands with Some Teeth
- A Couple of Other Biters You'll Be Using Soon
- Project 9A: Creating a Plan
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Project 9B: More Command Practice with pyWings
- 9B-1: Getting Ready for pyWings (Installing Tkinter)
- 9B-2: Getting pyWings
- 9B-3: Creating a LocalApps Folder for pyWings
- 9B-4: Extracting the pyWings Tarball
- 9B-5: Moving the pyWings Folder to Your LocalApps Folder
- 9B-6: Running pyWings
- 9B-7: Creating a Launchable Link for pyWings
- 9B-8: Running pyWings Again
- 9B-9: Adding Emblems to Your LocalApps Folder
- Project 9C: Command Practice Review with Briscola
- Project 9D: Compiling and Installing Programs from Source: Xmahjongg
- Customizing the Terminal
- Tabbed Shell Sessions in the Terminal
- 10. GUTENBIRD
- 11. POLYGLOT PENGUINS
- 12. PENGUINS AT WORK
- 13. BRUSH-WIELDING PENGUINS
- 14. TUX ROCKS
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15. PLUGGIN' IN THE PENGUIN
- Knowing Your Limits
- Mounting and Ejecting Your iPod or iPhone
- (Not) Auto-updating Your iPod or iPhone
- Working with Android-Based Phones
- Working with Other Digital Media Players and Cell Phones
- Managing Your Audio Device's Audio Files with Rhythmbox
- Problems Writing to Your iPod
- Working with Photos on Your Digital Device
- Converting Audio File Formats
- Playing Locked AAC (M4P) Files
- Linux on Your iPod?
- Working with . . . Your iPad?
- 16. COUCH PENGUINS
- 17. FEATHERED FLIPPERS
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18. PENGUINS AT THE GATES
- Project 18A: Accessing Files on Your Windows Partition (for Dual-Booters)
- Accessing a Linux Partition While Running Windows
- Project 18B: Installing Microsoft Windows Core Fonts
- Dual-Booting: Changing the Boot Order and Timeout
- Linux Equivalents to Your Windows Applications
- Project 18C: Running Windows Programs
- Installing Windows Inside Ubuntu
- Sharing Files with Windows Users on Your Network
- 19. DEFENDING THE NEST
- 20. A COLONY OF PENGUINS
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21. WOUNDED WINGS
- I Can't Get Ubuntu Installed
- Something Goes Wrong Before Ubuntu Finishes Booting
- Sound and Video Problems
- Internet and Network Connection Problems
- Problems with the Display and Graphics Cards
- Hard Disks and Storage Problems
- Software Installation Problems
- Common Problems with Applications
- My Computer Is Running Slowly
- Lost Files
- Where Can I Go to Get More Help?
- A. INSTALLING UBUNTU FROM A USB FLASH DRIVE
- B. UBUNTU DESKTOP CDS FOR AMD64, OPTERON, OR INTEL CORE 2 USERS
- C. MANUALLY PARTITIONING YOUR HARD DISK
- D. RESOURCES
- About the Authors
- COLOPHON
- E. UPDATES
- F. ABOUT THE CD
Product information
- Title: Ubuntu for Non-Geeks, 4th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2010
- Publisher(s): No Starch Press
- ISBN: 9781593272579
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