Point and Click Linux!

Your Guide to Trouble-free Computing

Robin Miller

270 pages, parution le 07/12/2004

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Résumé

Tired of Windows viruses, spyware, licensing hassles, and high costs? Try Linux!

Not sure Linux is up to the job? It is. Not sure you can learn Linux? You can. Linux expert and Open Source Developers' Network (OSDN) editor-in-chief, Robin "Roblimo" Miller, will teach you Linux the easy way: using the point-and-click skills you already have!

With the bootable SimplyMEPIS Linux software included on CD, you'll be running Linux in 5 minutes...no formatting, no partitioning, no technical hassles... just insert the CD, reboot your computer, and you're ready to go!!!

You don't need to be a computer expert! With Roblimo's step-by-step instructions and how-to videos, you'll master everything from word processing to the Web and email, instant messaging to CD burning... you name it.

Linux has never been this easy, this productive, or this much fun!

Navigate Linux visually, the easy way, with KDE
Get on the Web, send email, even build your own Web sites
Create Microsoft Office-compatible documents with OpenOffice.org
Instant-message and chat with all your friends-no matter what network they're on
Import, edit, and manage your digital photos
Burn CDs and DVDs
Play the world's best open source games
Download all the free software you'll ever need
Coexist easily with Windows users

CD-ROM AND DVD-ROM INCLUDED

CD features SimplyMEPIS Linux: start running Linux in 5 minutes, and get all the software you need to be productive!
DVD features Roblimo explaining all you need to know in bite-sized video tutorials. All the Linux skills you really need are covered here... just watch, and do!

Sommaire

Section I: Getting Started
- What You Can Do with Linux
- Running the SimplyMepis CD
- Working with Linux: KDE and KWrite
- Installing MEPIS Linux on Your Hard Drive
Section II: Linux Applications
- KPPP - Easy Modem Dialer Application
- Mozilla: Your Key to the Internet
- Setting Up and Using Mozilla E-mail
- Mozilla Web Browser
- Making Web Pages with Mozilla
- Introduction to OpenOfficeorg: Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Slide Presentations, Graphics, and More
- OpenOfficeorg Writer
- OpenOfficeorg Presenter
- OpenOfficeorg Draw
- OpenOfficeorg Calc: Spreadsheets
- OpenOfficeorg, Microsoft Office, and StarOffice
- CheckBook Tracker - Simple Bookkeeping with Linux
- Kopete - IM, IRC, and General Chat
- gFTP - An Easy, Powerful FTP Program
- K3B - Easy CD Burning Program
- The Gimp - Full-featured Graphics Application
- Digikam - Importing and Organizing Digital Photos
- Games! - Amusements Included with the SimplyMepis CD
- Other SimplyMEPIS Applications
Section III: Beyond the Basics
- Downloading and Installing Software
- Cooperating with Windows
- Customizing Linux
- Dipping a Toe Into the Command-line Waters
- Joining the Linux Community
Appendices
- A: Guide to Other Popular Linux Distributions
- B: Books that Can Help You Become More Proficient with Linux
- C: About MEPIS and the SimplyMEPIS CD

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Prentice Hall
Auteur(s)	Robin Miller
Parution	07/12/2004
Nb. de pages	270
Format	18 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	605g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780131488724
ISBN13	978-0-13-148872-4