Ubuntu Unleashed 2008 Edition: Covering 8.04 and 8.10 (4th Edition) (Unleashed)

Ubuntu Unleashed 2008 Edition presents comprehensive coverage of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. Windows users, Mac users, and Linux enthusiasts have been increasingly turning to Ubuntu for a user-friendly, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

This book provides detailed information on installing, using, and administering Ubuntu. You will learn how to set up a workstation or a server, and you will find complete details on Ubuntu’s easy-to-use desktop and productivity software.

Ubuntu Unleashed 2008 Edition includes a range of coverage: From the software you need in your everyday work, such as the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, to how to configure your Linux desktop to run smoothly using multiple printers, shell scripts, and more.

For the hardcore Linux enthusiast, there is complete coverage of the X Window system, Linux programming, web server administration, and network administration.

Includes a DVD with a full Ubuntu Linux distribution, plus a free upgrade to Ubuntu Linux 8.10 once it is released

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All Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review:
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

Misinformed and out of touch, 2008-08-15
The book contains lots of misinformation and long outdated notions, and approaches things in a way that doesn't make sense either for Ubuntu novices or those experienced with Linux.

E.g. on pages 30 and 31 it indicates that Ubuntu 8.04 doesn't enable Universe and Multiverse by default, which has not been true for a while.

E.g. In its introduction to Python on page 561 it says "Although PHP is fundamentally similar to Java and Perl, Python is closer to C and Modula-3, and so might look unfamiliar at first." Java and PHP are light-years apart, and saying Python is closer to C is bizarre.

The section on backups recommends tape drives for many classes of user - a slow, expensive and long outdated technology.

It wastes people's time talking about telnet.

Most everywhere I look, there is misinformation. I'm going to stop looking now.

I won this book in a raffle, and plan to recycle it rather than confusing someone else by giving it away.
There are much better Ubuntu books out there by folks that actually work on the distribution, like the "Official Ubuntu Book" (3rd Edition) by Benjamin Mako Hill, Corey Burger, Jonathan Jesse, and Jono Bacon.


1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

A Very Useful Book and DVD for Programmers, 2008-08-05
I was having trouble configuring my Ubuntu installation for programming C and this book and DVD provided me with all the resources that I needed to fix my problems. The book provided the needed information and the DVD provided the needed software packages. I could not have been happier with this combination. I wish that I had had this book before I setup my Ubuntu system!


4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

Not for ubuntu, 2008-08-04
I hate this book. I own the first and the second edition which covers ubuntu 7.04.

I think they took their fedora unleashed book and replaced all instances of "fedora" with "ubuntu" and published the result as ubuntu unleashed.

The book contains things which are not true or simple for ubuntu. For example it talks about /etc/inittab but there is no such a folder in ubuntu. They are not even aware that there is a graphical application to install graphic drivers. The music player they referred to was Beep Media Player (nothing wrong with it as an audio player per se) which isn't even installed on Ubuntu by default. The list goes on.

So that book may be a good fedora book but it is not a good ubuntu book.

May be they fixed things in later editions, I have not seen them. But there are definetely better ubuntu books out there.



3 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

Covers 8.10? Hasn't been released yet?, 2008-07-18
Ubuntu 8.10 isn't released yet, how can the book cover Ubuntu 8.10? As the name of 8.10 the intrepid ibex revers to is released in october (10) of 2008. And yet I can purchaase this book right now? Alphas have just been released. Must be a mgical book

Jonathan

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