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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gagné, Marcel.
Moving to Ubuntu Linux / Marcel Gagne.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-321-42722-X (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Linux. 2. Operating systems (Computers) I. Title.
QA76.76.O63.G3455 2006
005.4'32—dc22
2006021595
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This book is dedicated to
Chris Kelly,
my great friend of more than thirty years
and the only guy crazy enough to fly
5,000 kilometers in a Cessna 172, with me as the pilot.