Overview
- Adapted from Keir Thomas' best-selling "Beginning Ubuntu: From Novice to Professional" (Bookscan YTD: 4,365), and co-authored by Keir Thomas, this book is based on a proven format and content
- The only book to cover the Fedora Linux distribution from the desktop perspective, showing users how to carry out everyday tasks such as playing MP3s and video, managing and editing photos, and performing office tasks
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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The Shell and Beyound
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Multimedia
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Office Tasks
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Keeping Your System Running
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About this book
Beginning Fedora: From Novice to Professional guides you through the tasks most new Linux users desire to perform, while explaining potentially confusing concepts along the way. It will steer you through system customization opportunities and common tasks like listening to audio CDs and MP3s, watching movies, and performing office- and Internet-related jobs. A large part of the book is dedicated to advanced command-line techniques necessary to maintain your system and become a true Linux master!
Highlights of this title include the following:
- Provides an illustrated, step-by-step guide to Fedora installation and hardware configuration
- Includes a DVD consisting of the latest Fedora operating system. Just place the disk into your drive and begin!
- Eases the transition from the Windows to the Linux desktop by focusing on key everyday tasks such as file management, peripheral configuration, MP3/video playback, and office tasks
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beginning Fedora
Book Subtitle: From Novice to Professional
Authors: Shashank Sharma, Keir Thomas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0297-4
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Apress 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-59059-855-9Published: 06 August 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-0297-4Published: 14 February 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 519
Topics: Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems