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Ubuntu Kung Fu: Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Hacks | 
 enlarge | Author: Keir Thomas
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 36750
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Pages: 400
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 7.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 1934356220
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9781934356227
ASIN: 1934356220
Publication Date: September 28, 2008
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Product Description
Ubuntu builds on a solid base of Debian Linux to create an award-winning operating system that's light-years ahead of its competitors. Ubuntu consistently tops lists of the most popular Linuxes amongst professionals and enthusiasts; Dell recently embraced Ubuntu in its product lines after a user survey indicated overwhelming public support.
Ubuntu Kung Fu provides hints, hacks, tweaks and tricks for every level of user. Guaranteed to be free of the usual dross that fills tips books, Ubuntu Kung Fu is written to be entertaining and, above all, readable. Its 300+ concise tips utilize and exploit hidden or lesser-known features to boost day-to-day productivity. You'll also find tips on tweaking Ubuntu, wrangling the system into shape, optimizing, enhancing security, and lots more. Learn what extraordinary things can be done with Ubuntu.
Written with the migrating Windows or Mac OS X user in mind, Ubuntu Kung Fu avoids the usual Linux/Unix folklore that can send most of us to sleep. The tips have one aim--to produce results as quickly as possible, in an environment where the reader can polish their skills as they read. This is the Linux book for the rest of us.
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Become a Ubuntu Kung Fu master! November 16, 2008
Adam Barrett (SL, UT)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book was written for version 8.04 of Ubuntu, but will work great with 8.10 too! While reading and reviewing the book, you ought to have a machine nearby to test the hacks and hints. They are absolutely amazing. There are over 300 tips in the book, and each is a gem in its own right. The tips range rom optimizing the speed of your machine, to GUI hacks, hardware, messing with media, security enhancements, and system administration.
The table of contents is really great too! First it list each hack/tip in order of the book, then it shows you the tips organized into groups of topics, system admin, security, etc. Also each tip has information on getting to the next tips that are related.
Truly this book is for anyone who is using Ubuntu who hasn't been working with the code directly and would like to know more about the OS and what it can do.
Just after reading the first few tips I was able to reduce the boot times on my laptop from minute and twenty seconds to under thirty seconds. I was also able to accurately graph the results of these changes by installing and using bootchart, a tip from the Ubuntu Kung Fu book.
If you are looking for a good book to help you enhance your understanding of Linux and Ubuntu, this is the book, get it now at Amazon, or from the Pragmatic Bookshelf.
Ubuntu Kung Fu is excellent October 29, 2008
James A. Morgan (Arizona)
This book has a lot of little known "short cuts" that make Ubuntu a lot more useful. Ubuntu has been the most user friendly Linux system ever presented. This book makes it much more this way.
Loved the cover.
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