Ubuntu Unleashed 2011 Edition: Covering 10.10 and 11.04 6th Edition Book/DVD Package

A comprehensive power user's guide to Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) -- extensively revamped by two prominent Ubuntu experts!  

 

Massive new coverage for intermediate-to-advanced users! Ubuntu cloud services, GRUB2, Upstart, LTSP, and much more

Thoroughly revised by official Ubuntu Forum admin Matthew Helmke and Ryan Troy, one of the world's most experienced Linux admins

Includes complete, brand-new Ubuntu Linux 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) on DVD

 

For years, Ubuntu Linux Unleashed has been a comprehensive and valuable book for Ubuntu power users of all kinds. Now, two prominent leaders of the global Ubuntu community have systematically revised and updated this book to reflect the highly anticipated new Ubuntu 10.10 release, Maverick Meerkat. Ubuntu Forum admin Matthew Helmke and Ubuntu Forum Council chairperson Ryan Troy present extensive new material for intermediate-to-advanced Linux users, including definitive coverage of installation, configuration, system administration, server operations, virtualization, and security. Ubuntu Linux Unleashed, 2011 Edition includes up-to-the-minute guidance on topics such as wireless and wired networking; web development; peripheral support, programming in PHP, Perl and other languages; and working with the latest versions of Ubuntu's standard software packages, including OpenOffice.org 3.1. New or significantly enhanced coverage in this edition includes: GRUB2 installation; the latest version of GNOME; Chrome and other new browsers; Ubuntu One cloud storage; the new Ubuntu One Music Store; video editing and multimedia creation; scanning; advanced system administration; task automation; and managing boot processes with Upstart.

 

 

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Matthew Helmke is an active member of the Ubuntu Linux community as an Administrator and Forum Council member for the Ubuntu Forums (http://www.ubuntuforums.org) and coauthored the most recent editions of The Official Ubuntu Book. Matthew first used Unix in 1987 while studying Lisp on a Vax at the university. He has run a business using only free software, has consulted, and is currently working on a master's degree in Information Resources and Library Science at the University of Arizona while working as the senior technical writer for iPlant Collaborative, a project creating software to help biologists do genetic research.

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    Introduction 1

    Licensing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

    Who This Book Is For . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

    What This Book Contains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

    Conventions Used in This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

    Part I Installing and Configuration

1 Installing Ubuntu 9

    Before You Begin the Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

        Researching Your Hardware Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

        Installation Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

        Planning Partition Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

        The Boot Loader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

        Installing from CD or DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

    Step-by-Step Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

        Installing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

        First Update. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

        WubiThe Easy Installer for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

    Shutting Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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