This edition is the update to the best-selling first edition introducing Ubuntu Linux. Adapted from the best-selling first edition, this book guides readers through the most commonly desired yet confusing concepts and tasks confronted by new Linux users. It includes even more information regarding hardware integration and the many evolutionary changes to the Ubuntu interface. Purposely focused on end users to satisfy the growing interest in migrating away from Windows to the increasingly mature Linux desktop platform, this book serves as a guide to a rapid and transparent familiarization of those features most treasured by general and power desktop users alike.
Covers many of the desktop-specific tasks which have haunted Linux users for years, including multimedia management, office tasks, general system administration issues, and more. This new edition is updated to include even more information regarding hardware integration and the many evolutionary changes to the Ubuntu interface After helping the reader get situated with key desktop tasks, material is devoted to crucial administration concepts specific to Linux such as effective use of the BASH shell and backups