Linux for Non-Geeks: A Hands-On, Project-Based, Take-It-Slow Guidebook

by: Rickford Grant (Author)

Publisher: No Starch Press
Edition: First Edition

Publication Date: March 1, 2004

Language: English

Print Length: 320 pages

ISBN-10: 9781593270346

ISBN-13: 9781593270346

Book Description

This book is for any home user who has switched or is thinking of switching to Linux. Based on Red Hat’s Fedora Core, Linux for Non-Geeks avoids geeky subjects like server and network setup and concentrates on the subjects of interest to the average home user: Installation, the Inteet, playing CDs and audio files, desktop customization, games, downloading software and fonts, USB storage devices, printing, and more. Readers with only basic experience with Windows or another Linux distribution will lea how to do everything on their Linux machine that they are used to doing with Windows. Includes a complete installation of Fedora Linux on two CDs.
This book is for any home user who has switched or is thinking of switching to Linux. Based on Red Hat’s Fedora Core, Linux for Non-Geeks avoids geeky subjects like server and network setup and concentrates on the subjects of interest to the average home user: Installation, the Inteet, playing CDs and audio files, desktop customization, games, downloading software and fonts, USB storage devices, printing, and more. Readers with only basic experience with Windows or another Linux distribution will lea how to do everything on their Linux machine that they are used to doing with Windows. Includes a complete installation of Fedora Linux on two CDs.