By Keir Thomas
Ubuntu's upward thrust to strength has been swift, ancient and hard-earned. It's the easiest Linux distribution ever, yet most folk merely use a fragment of its energy. Award-winning Linux writer Keir Thomas will get down and soiled with Ubuntu to supply over three hundred concise suggestions that increase productiveness, stay away from annoyances, and easily get the main from Ubuntu. You'll locate many particular assistance right here that can't be chanced on anyplace else. You'll additionally get a crash direction in Ubuntu's taste of method management. no matter if you're new to Linux or an outdated hand, you'll locate how to make your day easier.
Ubuntu builds on a great base of Debian Linux to create an award-winning working approach that's light-years sooner than its opponents. Ubuntu always tops lists of the most well-liked Linuxes among execs and fans; Dell lately embraced Ubuntu in its product strains after a consumer survey indicated overwhelming public aid.
Ubuntu Kung Fu presents tricks, hacks, tweaks and tips for each point of consumer. sure to be freed from the standard dross that fills suggestions books, Ubuntu Kung Fu is written to be pleasing and, primarily, readable. Its three hundred+ concise assistance make the most of and make the most hidden or lesser-known good points to spice up day by day productiveness. You'll additionally locate pointers on tweaking Ubuntu, wrangling the procedure into form, optimizing, improving defense, and plenty extra. research what amazing issues should be performed with Ubuntu.
Written with the migrating home windows or Mac OS X consumer in brain, Ubuntu Kung Fu avoids the standard Linux/Unix folklore which may ship such a lot folks to sleep. the information have one aim--to produce effects as speedy as attainable, in an atmosphere the place the reader can polish their talents as they learn. this can be the Linux ebook for the remainder of us.
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