Sat, 02 Sep 2006
Ubuntu Hacks
J. Oxer, K. Rankin, B. Childers, Ubuntu Hacks:
Tips and Tools for Exploring, and Tuning Linux, O'Reilly
Ubuntu was put together as an easier to approach Debian and
since its launch it has grown ever more popular which has been
helped along the way by a lot of promotion and people getting
out to events armed with loads of discs to give out. As the title
suggests a lot of the hacks in this book can relate to just
about any Linux distro.
The book does start with installing Ubuntu and then goes onto
potentially more general topics such as the Linux desktop and
related areas of syncing PDAs and so forth. It looks at multimedia,
laptops, different configurations, package management, security,
admin, virtualization, and using it as a server.
In a way the book is quite a good starter view of running Linux.
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