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A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux(R)
by Mark G. Sobell
from Prentice Hall PTR

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Excellent as tutorial & reference!
  This book is exactly what I was looking for, and needed. It covers every aspect of installation, setup, customization, and use of Ubuntu Linux. It covers each topic in plain English, throughly, and builds your understanding from the basics through advanced topics. You can easily use this book to get up and running fast, and then learn at your own pace the more complex topics.
  I highly recommend this book to anyone with Ubuntu! It is well written, covers everything in detail, and can be used by a novice... more info

• Great book for the new user
  I'm new to linux in general and heard about Ubuntu through friends. Though I consider myself to be a fairly competent computer user (built computers for 4 years during college and manage hardware/software for a small business), Linux was pretty intimidating to me. This book breaks more complex stuff like RAID array setup, managing software updates, even using the console interface into easy to understand language. This is a rare book, in that it's written by knowledgeable people with the average Joe in... more info

• This is one of the more complete books I've found on Ubuntu.
  The book included everything I was looking for and made mastering Ubuntu easy. This is one that I'll keep as a reference.

• A complete guide to Ubuntu Linux for beginning to intermediate users
  Finding a single book that encompasses what you want to learn can be difficult. Most cover a few portions of a subject in depth and skim over (or omit) others. Other books will cover each topic at about the same level: high enough to give an impression of what can be done, but not with enough depth to do it without a lot of effort. Mark G. Sobell's "A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux" is a single volume that gives the reader enough information to effectively install, configure and run workstations and... more info

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