Beginning Ubuntu Linux: From Novice to Professional is the first comprehensive guide to Ubuntu Linux. Adapted from Keir Thomas' best-selling "Beginning SUSE Linux: From Novice to Professional" (Apress, 2005), Keir sets out to guide readers through the most commonly desired yet confusing concepts and tasks confronted by new Linux users. Purposely focused on end users to satisfy the growing interest in migrating away from windows to the increasingly mature Linux desktop platform, Beginning Ubuntu Linux serves as a guide to a rapid and transparent familiarization of those features most treasured by general and power desktop users alike.
According to Distrowatch.com, the standard site for determining Linux distribution market penetration, Ubuntu is presently the #1 most popular distribution out of the 100 monitored Bundled with a CD that will contain a full version of Ubuntu Authored by Keir Thomas, author of the bestselling book, "Beginning SUSE Linux: From Novice to Professional". The technical reviewer is John Hornbeck, a member of the core Ubuntu development team Careful to cover the desktop-specific tasks which have haunted Linux users for years, including multimedia management, office tasks, general system administration issues, and more. This practical approach to "Beginning SUSE Linux: From Novice to Professional" seems to have worked very well, and we intend to build on that approach with this book