Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Chapter 1 Introducing Ubuntu!
But What Is Linux?
Is Linux Really FREE?
What’s a Distribution?
Linux and the GPL
What Do I Gain?
Security
Stability
Power
Money
Freedom from Legal Hassles
What Do I Lose?
Hardware and Peripheral Support
Software Packages
A Step into the Unknown
Some Tips on Using This Book
Quick Tips and Shelling Out
Meet Your Desktop
Help Me!
The Ubuntu Community
The Linux Documentation Project
Linux User Groups
About the DVD
It’s My Philosophy
Resources
Chapter 2 Running and Installing the Ubuntu Live DVD
Ready to Try Ubuntu Linux?
HELP!
Boot Level Options
Taking a Tour of Ubuntu Linux
Famous Places on the Menu
Administering and Personalizing Your System
Installing the Ubuntu Live DVD
Remember to Share
Resources
Chapter 3 Getting Your Hands Dirty (Desktop Overview)
Getting to Know You … GNOME
A Few Words About X
Logging In
Becoming One with the Desktop
Your First Application
Windows, Title Bars, and Menus, Oh My!
The Title Bar
On to the Menu Bar
And the Wastebasket?
Resizing Windows
Command Central
A Polite Introduction to the Command Line
Give Me More!
Changing Your Password; It’s All About You!
User Security
Much Ado About sudo
I Need More Help!
Logging Out
Navigating Your Ubuntu Desktop
Resources
Chapter 4 Navigating Nautilus
Files, Directories, and the Root of All Things
Wherever You Go …
Search Me …
Navigating the Side Panel
Navigating Networks
Uh, Roger, Copy That …
Creating New Folders
“I’ve Changed My Mind” (a.k.a. Renaming Files)
Copying Files and Directories (and Moving, Too!)
Wait! What About Links?
Which Brings Us to Permissions
Deleting Files and Folders
Other Interesting Places to Visit
My World, My Way
Making Your Home a Home
Chapter 5 Customizing Your Desktop (or Making Your World Your Own)
I Am Sovereign of All I Survey …
Changing the Background
Save My Screen, Please!
Moving Things Around
Is That a Theme or a Motif?
Defining Your Own Theme
Adding New Themes
Adding Icons and Shortcuts to Your Desktop
Applets Galore: Back to the Panel!
Miscellaneous Changes
Resources
Chapter 6 Printers and Other Hardware
Yes, It Runs with Linux!
Plug and Play
Printers and Printing
Network Printers
Print Jobs–Where Are My Print Jobs?
Getting Familiar with Your Other Hardware
PCI Devices
USB Devices
Modems versus Winmodems
The Winmodem/Linmodem Roundup
What? More Devices?
Resources
Chapter 7 Connecting to the Internet
Before You Begin
Getting on the Net
Connecting to the Net with a Modem
Configuring Your Dial-up Connection
Cable Modems and High-Speed DSL
Going Wireless
The Windows-only Driver Dilemma
Okay, I’m Connected—Now What?
Resources
Chapter 8 Installing New Applications
Linux and Security
Identifying Software Packages
The Simplest Way to Add Applications
Removing Installed Packages
But Wait, There’s More!
The Synaptic Package Manager
Adding Repositories
Installing Software with Synaptic
Keeping Ubuntu Up-to-Date
DEBs, the Shell Way
Great, but Can You Tell Me What Is Already There?
Finding out a Package’s Current Release Level
What Is That Strange File?
Using apt-get to Install or Update Software
Graphical or Nongraphical?
Chapter 9 Instant Messaging, and IRC, Too!
Why Jabber?
Instant Messaging with Gaim
IRC: Internet Relay Chat
XChat
Learning More About IRC
Resources
Chapter 10 Surfing the Net with Firefox
Mozilla versus Firefox
Working from Home
Keeping Tabs on the Web, Firefox Style
Go for the Big Screen
Ban the Pop-up Ads, Forever!
Yummy … Cookies
The Firefox Sidebar
Extending Firefox
Wrapping Up—Other Browsers to Consider
Resources
Chapter 11 Evolution: Email and More!
Be Prepared …
Evolution
Sending and Receiving Mail
Your Little Black Book
Attached to You …
Other Options
Resources
Chapter 12 Evolution: Keeping Organized
Evolution and Planning
Creating Appointments
Let’s Do That Again: Evolution Recurrence
The Makings of a Meeting
Tasks and Other To-Dos
Resources
Chapter 13 OpenOffice.org Writer (It Was a Dark and Stormy Night …)
Getting Started with OpenOffice.org Writer
Write Now!
The Hunt for Typos
What Language Is That?
Saving Your Work
Printing Your Document
Toolbars of Every Kind …
Help!
To Word or Not to Word?
Personalizing Your Environment
A Wizard of Words
Navigating Style
Navigating the Rivers of Text
Speaking of Document Elements …
More! Give Me More!
Alternative Word Processor Choices
Resources
Chapter 14 OpenOffice.org Calc (Tables You Can Count On)
Starting a New Spreadsheet and Entering Data
Basic Math
Saving Your Work
Complex Charts and Graphs, Oh My!
Magical Totals
Nice, Colorful, Impressive, and Dynamic Graphs
Final Touches
A Beautiful Thing!
Alternatives
Resources
Chapter 15 OpenOffice.org Impress (For When You Need to Impress Someone)
Getting Ready to Impress
Inserting Slides
Adding Color
Printing Your Presentation
Instant Web Presentations
How About a Little Flash? Shocking!
So What’s with the Penguin?
Extra! Extra!
Alternatives
Resources
Chapter 16 OpenOffice.org Base
The Beginning: Creating a New Database
Setting the Table
No Wizards for Me!
Creating Mailing Labels
Further Exploring
Resources
Chapter 17 Digital Art with the GIMP
Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your GIMP
Easy Logos with the GIMP
Saving and Opening Your Work
Printing Your Masterpiece
Tools, Tools, and More Tools
On to the Tool Icons
Touching Up Photographs
What Is Script-Fu?
Resources
Chapter 18 If Music Be the Food of Love … (Ubuntu Linux Multimedia)
Adjusting the Levels
Playing Audio CDs with the Sound Juicer
A Simpler CD Player
Ripping and Burning Songs
Intermezzo: Digital Audio Formats
Using Sound Juicer as a CD Ripper
Playing Your Songs
Can You Feel the Burn?
Burning a Data CD
A Note About Backups
Burning a Music CD with Serpentine
Put Another Nickel In …
Rhythmbox
Resources
Chapter 19 Would You Like to Play a Game? (Very Serious Fun)
Ubuntu Preinstalled Games
AisleRiot Solitaire
Ataxx
Blackjack
Five or More
Four-in-a-Row
Freecell Patience
Gnometris
Iagno
Klotski
Mahjongg
Mines
Nibbles
Robots
Same GNOME
Tali
Tetravex
Must-Have Linux Games
Frozen-Bubble
PlanetPenguin Racer
Armagetron
More Games! I Need More Games!
Resources
Chapter 20 Turning Ubuntu into Kubuntu
Installing the Kubuntu Desktop
Doing It with the Shell
Resources
Chapter 21 Taking Command of Ubuntu Linux
Linux Commands: An Easy Start
Getting to the Shell
Commands to Know and Love, Part 1
Working with Files
Commands to Know and Love, Part 2
File Naming Conventions
Listing Files with Emotion!
A Peek at Metacharacters
File Permissions in the Shell
Not-So-Hidden Files
Strange Filenames That Just Don’t Go Away
More on rm (or, “Oops! I didn’t really mean that”)
Making Your Life Easier with alias
Forcing the Issue
Standard Input and Standard Output
Pipes and Piping
tee: A Very Special Pipe
STDERR
The Road to Nowhere
Linux Commands: Working with Directories
There’s No Place Like $HOME
More on File Permissions
User and Group Ownership
Who Can Do What?
Who Was That Masked User?
The setuid Bit
Finding Anything
Using grep
Processes
Forests and Trees
Interrupting, Suspending, and Restarting Processes
Killing Processes
Working with Editors
Meet gedit
I Am vi, the Great and Powerful
:q, :w, :wq, and ZZ
Recovering a vi Session
Power vi: Start-Up Options
Other Editor Options
Resources
Appendix A The GNU General Public License
GNU General Public License
Preamble
GNU General Public License Terms and Conditions for Copying, Distribution, and Modification
No Warranty
How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
Resources
Index
