The Official Ubuntu Book (5th Edition)
Benjamin Mako Hill, Corey Burger, Matthew Helmke
Language: English
Pages: 440
ISBN: 0137081308
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Ubuntu is a complete, free operating system that emphasizes community, support, and ease of use without compromising speed, power, or flexibility. It’s Linux for human beings, designed for everyone from computer novices to experts. Ubuntu 10.04 is the latest release—more powerful, more flexible, and friendlier than ever. The Official Ubuntu Book, Fifth Edition, will get you up and running quickly. <p style="margin: 0px;">
<p style="margin: 0px;">Written by expert, leading Ubuntu community members, this book covers all you need to know to make the most of Ubuntu 10.04, whether you’re a home user, small business user, server administrator, or programmer. The authors explain Ubuntu 10.04 from start to finish: installation, configuration, desktop productivity, games, management, support, and much more. Among the many topics covered in this edition: Kubuntu, Ubuntu Netbook Edition, and Ubuntu Server.
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<p style="margin: 0px;">This complete guide also covers standard desktop applications, from word processing, spreadsheets, Web browsing, e-mail, instant messaging, music, video, and games to software development, databases, and server applications. In addition, you will
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* Learn how to customize Ubuntu for home, small business, school, government, and enterprise environments
* Learn how to quickly update Ubuntu to new release versions and upgraded applications
* Find up-to-the-minute troubleshooting advice from Ubuntu users worldwide from forums and other means to get the help you need quickly
* Learn Ubuntu Server installation and administration, including LVM and RAID implementation
* Learn how to install Ubuntu on a netbook
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<p style="margin: 0px;"> The DVD includes the complete Ubuntu Linux operating system for installation on PC platforms. The disk is preconfigured with an outstanding desktop environment for both home and business computing. It can be used to install other complete variants of Ubuntu, including Kubuntu (with the KDE environment), Ubuntu Netbook Edition, and Ubuntu Server.
(CoC) describes Ubuntu’s how. Ubuntu’s From the Library of Wow! eBook 22 Chapter 1 Introducing Ubuntu CoC is, arguably, the most important document in the day-to-day operation of the Ubuntu community and sets the ground rules for work and cooperation within the project. Explicit agreement to the document is the only criterion for becoming an officially recognized Ubuntu activist—an Ubuntero—and is an essential step toward membership in the project. Signing the Ubuntu Code of Conduct and
around the use and promotion of a single programming language, Python. The project has worked to ensure that Python is widely used throughout the system. By ensuring that desktop applications, text-based or console applications, and many of the “guts” of the system are written in or extensible in Python, Ubuntu is working to ensure that users need learn only one language in order to take advantage of, automate, and tweak many parts of their computer systems. Bug #1 Of course, Ubuntu’s goals are
equivalent of My Documents in Windows—virtually everything you save lives here. Each user has a separate home folder. Desktop: The Desktop folder is inside your home folder and contains files that visually appear on your desktop as icons. If you drag a file onto your desktop, it will appear in the Desktop folder. Similarly, moving a file out of this folder or deleting it will remove it from your desktop. Computer: Clicking this item displays the different drives attached to your computer as
are not in your address book, or use the Attendees button if they are in your address book. When you click Attendees, a new dialog pops up with a list of attendees down the left. You can use the Add and Remove buttons to add contacts to (or remove them from) the different categories of Chairpersons, Required Participants, Optional Participants, and Resources. Now, you probably don’t have any contacts in there, as you are just starting to use Evolution, so use the main Contacts button on the left
the last option, Manually Edit Partition Table. Below the top two options on the screen (Guided Partitioning and Help), you’ll find a list of the physical drives in your server that the Ubuntu installer detected. From the Library of Wow! eBook Installing Ubuntu Server TIP 149 Avoiding the “Oh, No!” Moment We’ve said this before, and we’ll say it again: It’s very easy to mistakenly erase valuable data when partitioning your system. Since you’re installing a server, however, we’ll assume