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Strong impulse buy uniquely suited to a down economy. The message is powerful: Buy cheap, but good hardware. Get the software for free.
No competition. The only book about free software to be published in four years, and backed by a publisher with a strong technical reputation.
Established author with a recognized name in consumer markets. There will be extensive, energetic cross-marketing by the author, and through tie-ins with open-source software developers and free-software evangelists.
Strong sales potential across multiple retail contexts and demographics. The book will appeal strongly to several niche demographics, for instance: senior citizens, college students, people on fixed incomes, new computer users. Its appeal is as strong to a casual bookstore customer in a small town in Kansas as it is for an IT professional in a bookstore in San Jose. Everyone wants free stuff. This book provides the best of it.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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About this book
You know that Ubuntu software costs nothing. Now you want the PC system that costs as little as possible and runs Ubuntu and OS applications without complaints and calls to tech support.
So you spent your hard–earned dollars on the hardware only, and have your own optimized Ubuntu PC. This is the book that will show you how to get what you need without wreaking havoc on your finances. Put together the parts to make a great work computer for little cost.
Packed with the practical, hands–on guidance and technical know–how that you've come to expect from Apress, Ubuntu on a Dime takes you on a tour of the very best low–cost hardware, while only using zero–cost software in each of the many categories that matter to the typical PC user.
You'll learn how to find the best and cheapest hardware, and how to put it together to make a working PC. Learn to edit photos on the Internet without having to install any software at all. Find out where to get a free office suite for word processing and spreadsheet work. Whatever your need, James Kelly, best–selling technology author, guides you through the exciting and often confusing world of zero–cost computing.
This book
- Takes you step–by–step through a PC build
- Tells you what you need to install to have a fantastic work computer without spending a dime
- Saves you money by showing you how to meet your computing needs
- Saves you time by pointing you directly to the best free software
- Saves you work by illustrating the most commonly performed tasks with each zero–cost software
- Gives you choices and the ability to make your own decisions for your own needs and requirements
Before you go buy that $900 dollar computer and that $400 office suite—or worse, before you “borrow” it from work—stop! Let this inexpensive book show you how to save hundreds of dollars in expensive software, and never depend on the big PC providers and their tech support again. Learn all about cheap, fast hardware, find out about the free tools that the digerati use to make their lives better, and stop paying out the nose. Don't spend a dime!
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ubuntu on a Dime
Book Subtitle: The Path to Low-Cost Computing
Authors: James Floyd Kelly
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1973-6
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: James Floyd Kelly 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-1972-9Published: 09 June 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-1973-6Published: 28 July 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 280
Topics: Open Source, Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks