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Linux for Non-Geeks View Larger Image | Rickford Grant
No Starch, Paperback, Bk&CD edition, Published March 2004, 308 pages, ISBN 1593270348 | List Price: $34.95
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Includes a complete installation of Fedora Linux on two CDs.
This book is for any home user who has switched or is thinking of switching to Linux. Based on Red Hat's Fedora Core, Linux For Non-Geeks avoids geeky subjects like server and network setup and concentrates on the subjects of interest to the average home user: Installation, the Internet, playing CDs and audio files, desktop customization, games, downloading software and fonts, USB storage devices, printing, and more. Readers with only basic experience with Windows or another Linux distribution will learn how to do everything on their Linux machine that they are used to doing with Windows.
About the Author
Rickford Grant has been a computer operating system maniac for over 20 years. From his earliest days with his Atari XL600 to his present Linux machines, he has been the guy at the other end of the computer help line for family, friends and colleagues. When not burning himself out in front of his monitor, or annoying his neighbors with his Nyckelharpa (Swedish keyed fiddle) playing, he spends his working hours as an Associate Professor at Toyama University of International Studies in Japan, where he teaches courses in English Language, Swedish Culture, and English-language-based computing.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Becoming a Penguinista--Welcome to the World of Linux
Chapter 2: Making Commitments--Installing Linux on Your Machine
Chapter 3: A New Place to Call Home--Getting to Know the Desktop
Chapter 4: More than Webbed Feet--Doing the Net with Linux
Chapter 5: Dressing Up the Bird--Customizing the Look, Feel, and Sound of Your System
Chapter 6: Gutenbird--Setting Up and Using Your Printer
Chapter 7: Putting Your Data on Ice--Working with Floppies and CDs
Chapter 8: RPM Isn’t a 1980s Atlanta-Based Band--Installing Programs with RPM
Chapter 9: Simple Kitten Ways--Getting to Know the Linux Terminal and Command Line
Chapter 10: Yes, Yet Another Way!--Downloading, Installing, and Updating Programs with APT and Synaptic
Chapter 11: Dining on Tarballs--Compiling Programs from Source (Made Kind of Easy)
Chapter 12: Data on Ice Revisited--Windows Partitions and USB Storage Devices
Chapter 13: Tux Rocks--Music à la Linux
Chapter 14: Brush-Wielding Penguins--Linux Does Art
Chapter 15: Penguins Back at Work--Getting Down to Business in Linux
Chapter 16: Font Feathered Frenzy--Adding New Fonts to Your System
Chapter 17: Tux Speaks Your Language--Linux for Multilingual Users and Language Learners
Chapter 18: Tux Untethered--Going Wireless with Linux
Chapter 19: Leaving the Nest--Getting Ready to Move Out on Your Own
Chapter 20: What to Do If Tux Starts Acting Up--Problem Solving
Appendix A: Launcher Specifications
Appendix B: Resources
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 4 Average Customer Rating: Jun 9, 2004 A review from Santa Ynez, Calif
Wonderful tutorial
Great book expecially if you have used a Window environment for years and want to learn Fedora Linux. This is also the only step by step tutorial I could find on Linux
May 14, 2004  CMG from Allen, Tx.
Good for new Fedora Users.
This is a good book for the first time Linux user who has not installed any version of Linux. It is also a good book for those using Fedora Linux as the book is totally taylored around Fedora and it's functions. It is not that much help with other versions of Linux; even Red Hat 9.0. Many of the functions that the book indicates work "automatically" as with Windows, do not work that way with Red Hat or other versions. I wish the author would either address it more generically or develope similar text for other "flavors" of Linux.
Apr 10, 2004 Dave from Las Vegas, NV USA
Great Linux Guidebook
I have been a Mac user for many years and have been curious about trying out Linux on another machine, but have been putting it off up until now because most of the books and articles I've read about Linux seemed . . . well, sort of difficult and not easy to follow. A friend purchased this book, and recommended it highly as being clear and less intimidating. This prompted me to go ahead and give it a try after all. I found the book easy to understand, straightforward and with many good illustrations - - - and above all it held my interest and attention. Linux For Non-Geeks is an excellent guidebook for getting comfortable with Linux.
Apr 3, 2004 Duane Parsons from Beaumont, Texas
Linux for the common computer user
I'd been interested in trying out Linux for quite a while, but had been scared away from what I'd seen in some of the other books. This book, however, seemed different enough to make me give it a try... and I now I'm a Linux user, or "Penguinista" as the book says.
The thing I really like about the book is that it really takes you through the steps (and makes the steps seem easy), and it doesn't immediately force you to start fiddling with commands. Commands are covered though, but the way that subject is covered makes it much less intimidating. It also has lot's of illustrations, and is written in a pretty user-friendly way - a very easy read.
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