Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference by Keir Thomas

by Keir Thomas

"A great resource covering Ubuntu from A to Z without all the extra fluff" -- Ryan Troy, administrator, Ubuntuforums.org. Read by over 500,000 people, Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference is the world's most popular Ubuntu book. Written by award-winning expert Keir Thomas, it will quickly transform you into a power user. In its clear and concise pages, you'll learn step-by-step about installation, the Ubuntu desktop, the tricks and techniques of efficient day-to-day usage, the command-line, software management, and, finally, system security. Appendixes provide a glossary of terms, and a guide to technical documentation.

Genres: Nonfiction

Paperback

First published January 19, 2009

About the author

Keir Thomas has nearly two decades experience as a magazine journalist and author, working largely in the home computing field but also covering leisure. In recent years he’s also written fiction.

His most recent computing books are iPad and iPhone Kung Fu and Mac Kung Fu (Second Edition), and his novel The Rock & Roll Beers is now on sale as Kindle, Kobo, Android and iBook eBooks.

He has written over 10 other best-selling computing books, one of which won a Linux Journal award and one of which has been read by more than 1,000,000 people worldwide. His $0.99 Kindle computing ebooks, written as a “publishing experiment”, consistently top Amazon’s sales charts — beating titles by the world’s biggest publishers.

Prior to book authoring he edited several computer magazines in the United Kingdom and continues to write for many other titles. He blogs professionally for publishing giant IDG and in the past has written for several high-profile independent sites.

His work has been translated into many languages, including German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Polish.

Are you still reading? Wow. Good for you. Keir lives in Manchester with two cats and one woman. His hobbies include walking and cycling. There. That’s everything.

Reviews

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a complete Linux novice, I found this very useful. It didn't tell me exactly what I needed to know, but it gave me enough background knowledge so that I was able to understand the answers I found through a google search.

[Reinhold · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent guide for beginners with ubuntu. Giving a good overview and not going too deep into detail to keep the information on a level that a newbie can understand.

Best of all, it's available as free-ebook

[Almothana Alghunaim · Rating 4 out of 5]

الكتاب يعطي نبذة بسيطة عن أبونتو للمستخدمين الجدد. الكتاب واضح و معلوماته مفيدة و مهمة لكل المستخدمين الجدد للنظام؛ و هو متوفر بشكل مجاني من موقع الكتاب: http://ubuntupocketguide.com/download... .. أنصح به إذا كنت جديداً على النظام و تحب أن تعرف أكثر عنه..

[Katherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this some time in 2009. At that time, I did not feel an urge to read a book to get started with Ubuntu however. It was very easy to learn without reading a book. Still kudos to the author for the free ebook.

Blog post:
http://www.blog.bridgeutopiaweb.com/p...

[Matt]

Can't beat the price for the pdf (free)