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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+42so they give you a free operating system, and publish a book to get a little of the cash back/help out the end user, and all you can think of is stealing it?
- bieber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17"The Fridge" is the part of the Ubuntu Community site where they basically show stuff off. You know, like you hang your child's artwork up on your fridge. I think it's pretty clever...
- rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16I love Ubuntu and all, but this seems to be one of those oportunistic books...depending on how long it takes to deliver, it could be outdated already when you receive it.
Just use google and the (great) ubuntuforums and you'll never need an Ubuntu book to find the answers you need. - trvr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16looks like good book. but I have a question, what is their obsession with fridges? http://fridge.ubuntu.com/image/tid/17
- rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13At least this book could help those trying to introduce Ubuntu in their companies/schools etc.. "see Mr Manager, it even got an OFFICIAL BOOK about it at Amazon, we'll be safe, don't worry!!"
The book might not be really useful but might help to increase Ubuntu's mindshare..actually that might be the reason why it was published, IMO. - daldredge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13@7of7
What sort of problems are you having? - rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Believe me, if you can't help yourself through the forums, it won't be this book that will save you.
Maybe the problem is in your end? Are you one of those who write "HELP MY MODEM IS DEAD!" and wait for a complete step-by-step answer with pictures and all? ;) - chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8what does the RIAA have to do with books?
the clue is in the name. - brianjameskirk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8At least they'll make money off of SOMEONE
- Haroldx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+76.06.1 LTS
Yay! - Drakkor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6V.I.S.T.A
Virus,Instability,Spyware,Trojsns,Adware
Why do you think MS came out with their own proprietary virus program? You're paying them to debug their own software. - chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6yes because they have completely redesigned linux from the ground up since this book was published and everything in it is null.
gotta be quick with this crazy tech game. - Invader02, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Because being free follows the ubuntu philosophy
Won't happen if it's only with book sellers like Borders. Besides, what's wrong with donating a little to the Ubuntu cause? - exsst, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Because they very reliable, look awesome, and when the robber AKA hacker comes in, he doesn't even bother with it.
LINUX POWER! - wirah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Great! I've just bought it. It will be interesting.
- exsst, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Not sure if you realize, but book production cost is significantly more than CD cost, especially when you do a batch of them.
I see no problem with a book cost. - titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6How are you gentlemen.
All your base are belong to us!!
You are on the way to destruction. - tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Duh, the fridge is where you keep the Mountain Dew and leftover pizza!
- rtilford, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7wait...... its out of date already!
- rickbauls, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@ImTheDarkcyde they provide a free copy of the pdf on their site... somewhere. Or they used to anyway.
/I might be confused. - jefferson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5just a note you can find alot of the info you need in your ubuntu install home/examples/book-toc.html plus some other goodies!
- Technopundit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5If this book is anything like the "Beginning Ubuntu" book that came out several months ago, don't bother.
Unless you like wading through a lot of Microsoft bashing to try and find technical information. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Considering that Dapper is LTS and the desktop version will be stable for three years, a newbie book about this configuration will also be relevant for three years.
- rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Nope, they also added a preface by Mark Shuttleworth explainig what "Ubuntu" means.
- ziadoz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Good idea, but a bad price at £23.33 on Amazon UK.
- orangeRam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ rickbauls
I don't think they do because the book this page is talking about was just published on the 16th - itanshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i like microsoft, they keep me in business (freelance repair)
- itanshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3if you want to steal the book and donate the ammount of money to them, then yes it is selective. get over your copyleft self. Its about supporting what you love, not stealing.
- Aero1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4pre ordered mine 3 weeks ago!!!
- standsolid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Finally! A cheap way to get ubuntu without downloading it!
- shawnanigans, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Its nice if Ubuntu can make some money off these then it will go towards making our lives a little better regardless what OS you use, it will improve Ubuntu no doubt and innovate things in all distros. If you use Windows then it might get Microsofts head out of their ass and make Vista as good as it would be without taking things out so that now Vista is just a DRM filled, pretty XP. This doesnt apply solely to the books but to any way that Ubuntu can find to make money.
- QuimZ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Go ubuntu!
- championchap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2hmm, im pretty tempted to buy it actually.. Ubuntu is my distro of choice at the moment, and it couldnt hurt to poke my nose around more. This book might be just what I need.. But yes, the price is slightly steep.
Still, worth it I think. - chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3you know speak the good english?
- balaurul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yes windows keeps some of us in bussines but linux is not really far.
though a pro user will not have troubles with xp [as i didn't have much] and a linux pro user will not have headakes with his box.
so lets start being smart and not talk about things that don't exist but in our minds
i dual boot xp with dapper ... without any ... any problems
only noobs will complain about things they don't know how to manage - razei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Cool, although books about software usually become useless after a while once a new version of the OS is released. Meh, dugg anyway.
- graystar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5So what did they do, use find and replace for fedora/ubuntu, rpm/apt-get? Normally these books are for fedora.
- Daisama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can order the cd's for free....you know that right?
Check it out because you can get a whole bunch of them for free.
https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ - Flamekebab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My mother runs Ubuntu. I might consider buying this book for her to replace the irrelevant SuSe-based book she currently has.
- rickbauls, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was thinking of this book: http://www.lulu.com/ubuntu-doc Lulu's Ubuntu Book which has the pdf version available freely here: https://help.ubuntu.com/
- Petrarch1603, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1all your thai news belong to us
- sgtpinky, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7I love these sorts of books. They are out of date in about a month.
Now, where did I put my Windows 95 book, I need to look something up... - vimchi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1More like s/fedora/ubuntu/g and s/rpm/apt-get/g, only not, since fedora is not ubuntu, and rpm is certainly no apt-get.
I'm not an Ubuntu user, but I do get this book. Not a bad thing at all. - KaosX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I know it's not the book but these should suffice for the average Joe.
Ubuntu Desktop Guide
https://help.ubuntu.com/pdf/ubuntu/C/desktopguide.pdf
Ubuntu Server Guide
https://help.ubuntu.com/pdf/ubuntu/C/serverguide.pdf - plizard, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0hey thanks, i was actually looking for that.
- dcherryholmes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0
I haven't seen the Ubuntu book yet, but Suse was practically worth the purchase price just to get the books that came with it. Those are some of the best user manuals for linux I have seen, at least for beginners (I recommend UNIX Systems Administrator's Handbook, by Seebass et al. for more advanced users). - superm401, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Actually, it's under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License. It's legal, and theoretically encouraged, to redistribute it
- superm401, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It is free, as in freedom, since it's under a Creative Commons license.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Let me guess, the Thai site is yours?
Spammer, been spamming everywhere. - TurdFurgison, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Ubuntu
What a joke. Love the turd brown look to it. I tried it, couldn't see the cd rom, couldn't mount it until I entered a root password but I didnt create one. Crap to the max. -
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