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Moving to Ubuntu Linux

by: Gagné, Marcel

Moving to Ubuntu Linux

by: Gagné, Marcel

ISBN 13:
9780321427229
ISBN 10:
032142722X
Format: Paperback w/CD
Copyright: 01/01/2007
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

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Learn how to test drive, install, operate, and maintain Ubuntu Linux, the hottest distro, from the award winning Marcel Gagne.

Acknowledgments

xix

Foreword

xxi

Introducing Ubuntu!

(14)

But What Is Linux?

(2)

Is Linux Really Free?

(1)

What's a Distribution?

(1)

Linux and the GPL

(1)

What Do I Gain?

(2)

Security

(1)

Stability

(1)

Power

(1)

Money

(1)

Freedom from Legal Hassles

(1)

What Do I Lose?

(1)

Hardware and Peripheral Support

(1)

Software Packages

(1)

A Step into the Unknown

(1)

Some Tips on Using This Book

(1)

Quick Tips and Shelling Out

(1)

Meet Your Desktop

(1)

Help Me!

(2)

The Ubuntu Community

(1)

The Linux Documentation Project

(1)

Linux User Groups

(1)

About the DVD

(1)

It's My Philosophy

(1)

Resources

(1)

Running and Installing the Ubuntu Live DVD

(26)

Ready to Try Ubuntu Linux?

(1)

Help!

(2)

Boot Level Options

(1)

Taking a Tour of Ubuntu Linux

(11)

Famous Places on the Menu

(1)

Administering and Personalizing Your System

(3)

Installing the Ubuntu Live DVD

(9)

Remember to Share

(1)

Resources

(1)

Getting Your Hands Dirty (Desktop Overview)

(24)

Getting to Know You . . . GNOME

(1)

A Few Words About X

(1)

Logging In

(1)

Becoming One with the Desktop

(2)

Your First Application

(2)

Windows, Title Bars, and Menus, Oh My!

(4)

The Title Bar

(2)

On to the Menu Bar

(1)

And the Wastebasket?

(1)

Resizing Windows

(1)

Command Central

(2)

A Polite Introduction to the Command Line

(1)

Give Me More!

(1)

Changing Your Password; It's All About You!

(2)

User Security

(2)

Much Ado About sudo

(1)

I Need More Help!

(1)

Logging Out

(2)

Navigating Your Ubuntu Desktop

(1)

Resources

(1)

Navigating Nautilus

(24)

Files, Directories, and the Root of All Things

(4)

Wherever You Go . . .

(1)

Search Me . . .

(4)

Navigating the Side Panel

(3)

Navigating Networks

(3)

Uh, Roger, Copy That . . .

(1)

Creating New Folders

(1)

``I've Changed My Mind'' (a.k.a. Renaming Files)

(1)

Copying Files and Directories (and Moving, Tool)

(6)

Wait! What About Links?

(3)

Which Brings Us to Permissions

(2)

Deleting Files and Folders

(1)

Other Interesting Places to Visit

(1)

My World, My Way

(1)

Making Your Home a Home

(1)

Customizing Your Desktop (or Making Your World Your Own)

(22)

I Am Sovereign of All I Survey . . .

(3)

Changing the Background

(3)

Save My Screen, Please!

(2)

Moving Things Around

(3)

Is That a Theme or a Motif?

(4)

Defining Your Own Theme

100

(2)

Adding New Themes

102

(1)

Adding Icons and Shortcuts to Your Desktop

102

(4)

Applets Galore: Back to the Panel!

106

(3)

Miscellaneous Changes

109

(1)

Resources

109

(2)

Printers and Other Hardware

111

(24)

Yes, It Runs with Linux!

112

(1)

Plug and Play

113

(1)

Printers and Printing

114

(9)

Network Printers

118

(4)

Print Jobs--Where Are My Print Jobs?

122

(1)

Getting Familiar with Your Other Hardware

123

(6)

PCI Devices

123

(4)

USB Devices

127

(2)

Modems versus Winmodems

129

(3)

The Winmodem/Linmodem Roundup

131

(1)

What? More Devices?

132

(1)

Resources

133

(2)

Connecting to the Internet

135

(14)

Before You Begin

136

(1)

Getting on the Net

137

(1)

Connecting to the Net with a Modem

137

(6)

Configuring Your Dial-up Connection

140

(3)

Cable Modems and High-Speed DSL

143

(1)

Going Wireless

144

(2)

The Windows-only Driver Dilemma

144

(2)

Okay, I'm Connected--Now What?

146

(1)

Resources

147

(2)

Installing New Applications

149

(20)

Linux and Security

150

(1)

Identifying Software Packages

151

(1)

The Simplest Way to Add Applications

151

(4)

Removing Installed Packages

154

(1)

But Wait, There's More!

154

(1)

The Synaptic Package Manager

155

(3)

Adding Repositories

156

(2)

Installing Software with Synaptic

158

(4)

Keeping Ubuntu Up-to-Date

162

(2)

DEBs, the Shell Way

164

(5)

Great, but Can You Tell Me What Is Already There?

165

(1)

Finding out a Package's Current Release Level

166

(1)

What Is That Strange File?

167

(1)

Using apt-get to Install or Update Software

167

(1)

Graphical or Nongraphical?

168

(1)

Instant Messaging, and IRC, Too!

169

(14)

Why Jabber?

170

(1)

Instant Messaging with Gaim

170

(6)

IRC: Internet Relay Chat

176

(6)

XChat

177

(4)

Learning More About IRC

181

(1)

Resources

182

(1)

Surfing the Net with Firefox

183

(16)

Mozilla versus Firefox

184

(9)

Working from Home

185

(1)

Keeping Tabs on the Web, Firefox Style

186

(2)

Go for the Big Screen

188

(1)

Ban the Pop-up Ads, Forever!

188

(2)

Yummy . . . Cookies

190

(2)

The Firefox Sidebar

192

(1)

Extending Firefox

193

(3)

Wrapping Up---Other Browsers to Consider

196

(1)

Resources

197

(2)

Evolution: Email and More!

199

(12)

Be Prepared . . .

200

(1)

Evolution

200

(10)

Sending and Receiving Mail

204

(3)

Your Little Black Book

207

(2)

Attached to You . . .

209

(1)

Other Options

210

(1)

Resources

210

(1)

Evolution: Keeping Organized

211

(14)

Evolution and Planning

212

(11)

Creating Appointments

213

(4)

Let's Do That Again: Evolution Recurrence

217

(1)

The Makings of a Meeting

218

(3)

Tasks and Other To-Dos

221

(2)

Resources

223

(2)

OpenOffice.org Writer (It Was a Dark and Stormy Night . . .)

225

(20)

Getting Started with OpenOffice.org Writer

226

(18)

Write Now!

228

(1)

The Hunt for Typos

228

(2)

What Language Is That?

230

(1)

Saving Your Work

230

(2)

Printing Your Document

232

(1)

Toolbars of Every Kind . . .

233

(1)

Help!

233

(1)

To Word or Not to Word?

234

(1)

Personalizing Your Environment

235

(3)

A Wizard of Words

238

(1)

Navigating Style

239

(2)

Navigating the Rivers of Text

241

(1)

Speaking of Document Elements . . .

242

(1)

More! Give Me More!

243

(1)

Alternative Word Processor Choices

244

(1)

Resources

244

(1)

OpenOffice.org Calc (Tables You Can Count On)

245

(14)

Starting a New Spreadsheet and Entering Data

246

(6)

Basic Math

247

(3)

Saving Your Work

250

(1)

Complex Charts and Graphs, Oh My!

251

(1)

Magical Totals

251

(1)

Nice, Colorful, Impressive, and Dynamic Graphs

252

(3)

Final Touches

255

(2)

A Beautiful Thing!

256

(1)

Alternatives

257

(1)

Resources

257

(2)

OpenOffice.org Impress (For When You Need to Impress Someone)

259

(20)

Getting Ready to Impress

260

(10)

Inserting Slides

267

(1)

Adding Color

268

(2)

Printing Your Presentation

270

(1)

Instant Web Presentations

270

(5)

How About a Little Flash? Shocking!

275

(1)

So What's with the Penguin?

275

(1)

Extra! Extra!

276

(1)

Alternatives

277

(1)

Resources

277

(2)

OpenOffice.org Base

279

(16)

The Beginning: Creating a New Database

280

(4)

Setting the Table

284

(5)

No Wizards for Me!

289

(1)

Creating Mailing Labels

289

(4)

Further Exploring

293

(1)

Resources

294

(1)

Digital Art with the GIMP

295

(24)

Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your GIMP

296

(7)

Easy Logos with the GIMP

299

(3)

Saving and Opening Your Work

302

(1)

Printing Your Masterpiece

303

(2)

Tools, Tools, and More Tools

305

(1)

On to the Tool Icons

306

(8)

Touching Up Photographs

314

(3)

What Is Script-Fu?

317

(1)

Resources

317

(2)

If Music Be the Food of Love . . . (Ubuntu Linux Multimedia)

319

(28)

Adjusting the Levels

320

(1)

Playing Audio CDs with the Sound Juicer

321

(2)

A Simpler CD Player

323

(1)

Ripping and Burning Songs

324

(5)

Intermezzo: Digital Audio Formats

325

(1)

Using Sound Juicer as a CD Ripper

325

(4)

Playing Your Songs

329

(2)

Can You Feel the Burn?

331

(9)

Burning a Data CD

332

(3)

A Note About Backups

335

(1)

Burning a Music CD with Serpentine

336

(4)

Put Another Nickel In . . .

340

(5)

Rhythmbox

341

(4)

Resources

345

(2)

Would You Like to Play a Game? (Very Serious Fun)

347

(24)

Ubuntu Preinstalled Games

348

(16)

AisleRiot Solitaire

348

(1)

Ataxx

349

(1)

Blackjack

350

(2)

Five or More

352

(1)

Four-in-a-Row

353

(1)

Freecell Patience

354

(1)

Gnometris

354

(1)

Iagno

354

(2)

Klotski

356

(1)

Mahjongg

357

(2)

Mines

359

(1)

Nibbles

360

(1)

Robots

360

(1)

Same GNOME

361

(1)

Tali

362

(1)

Tetravex

363

(1)

Must-Have Linux Games

364

(4)

Frozen-Bubble

364

(2)

PlanetPenguin Racer

366

(1)

Armagetron

367

(1)

More Games! I Need More Games!

368

(1)

Resources

369

(2)

Turning Ubuntu into Kubuntu

371

(10)

Installing the Kubuntu Desktop

372

(7)

Doing It with the Shell

379

(1)

Resources

379

(2)

Taking Command of Ubuntu Linux

381

(44)

Linux Commands: An Easy Start

382

(2)

Getting to the Shell

382

(1)

Commands to Know and Love, Part 1

383

(1)

Working with Files

384

(2)

Commands to Know and Love, Part 2

384

(1)

File Naming Conventions

385

(1)

Listing Files with Emotion!

385

(1)

A Peek at Metacharacters

386

(1)

File Permissions in the Shell

386

(3)

Not-So-Hidden Files

387

(1)

Strange Filenames That Just Don't Go Away

388

(1)

More on rm (or, ``Oops! I didn't really mean that'')

389

(1)

Making Your Life Easier with alias

389

(3)

Forcing the Issue

391

(1)

Standard Input and Standard Output

392

(2)

Pipes and Piping

394

(3)

tee: A Very Special Pipe

395

(1)

STDERR

395

(1)

The Road to Nowhere

396

(1)

Linux Commands: Working with Directories

397

(2)

There's No Place Like $Home

399

(1)

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