my thinking after reading Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference

It took me sometime to finish reading this book:
Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference

It's nice especial for the beginners.

You can download here for free.

How to get your wireless card working under Linux?
“Getting the card to work is simple! Just grab the
source code for the module and compile it against
the kernel. insmod it and then use iwconfig to configure a
WEP password—”

That's why Linux was “for techies only“.
Now it's so easy.

Desktop Linux systems changed everything.
Ubuntu is one of them.
If you can use Windows, you can use Ubuntu.
For it free, safe, faster and ease of use. why not use Linux? 

chapter 1 installation 
Skip, for It's really easy now, just follow the steps.

chapter 2 Configuring Ubuntu 
Every major area of hardware. Make them works.

chapter 3 Getting to grips with the desktop
The basic knowledge to use this desktop.

chapter 4 Users and the filesystem
The purpose of this chapter is tell you the file& folder:
 names, paths, permissions, locations...

chapter 5 Hands‐on at the command‐line
From zero to hero studying Shell/Bash in this chapter. It's great, not too hard, and contain lots of useful commands, suitable for the beginners. I wrote a PPT to introduce bash to the beginners, I felt that PPT is so ugly after I read this chapter. I can get more information from this book to update my PPT when needed. 


chapter 6 Software management
Almost tells the two tools: the Advanced Packaging Tool (APT), and the Debian Package system (dpkg), and use APT or dpkg installing/uninstalling packages.
This chapter also introduces the: software repositories. I only want to say: "change it to get the best download speed!"

chapter 7  Securing the system
This chapter tells you:
How to use  Update Manager to update the system? need it ?
Configuring the firewall.
Need an antivirus program? I don't think so, Linux is much safer than Windows even without an antivirus program.

From this book, I got the name of some books I want to read:

The Pragmatic Programmers -- Ubuntu Kung Fu
www.pragprog.com/titles/ktuk/ubuntu‐kung‐fu
Paper Book ($34.95)
eBook ($22.00) 
too expensive for me...


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