Point & Click Linux!: Your Guide to Trouble-Free Computing

by Robin "Roblimo" Miller

This book is a simple, highly illustrated introduction to the Linux Desktop forWindows users. It is filled with screenshots and short, easy-to-followdescriptions that teach readers how to replace common Windows programswith user-friendly Linux equivalents. It covers a wide range of topics includingemail, web-browsing, word processing, spreadsheets, slide presentations,graphics, instant messaging, digital photography, digital music, CD burning,personal finance, games and more. Readers can actually watch Miller do all ofthis with the integrated videos on DVD. And the "Point and Click Linux"guarantee ensures that readers will have Linux up and runningin 5 minutes with the bootable Mepis Linux CD.Leo Laporte will write the Forward and provide a cover endorsement.

270 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Robin "Roblimo" Miller was an American journalist specializing in technology who worked for Open Source Technology Group. Miller wrote for a number of print and online publications.