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Based on Xandros 3, arguably one of the most user-friendly versions of Linux available today, Linux Made Easy concentrates on the subjects of most interest to the average home user or hobbyist: installation, using the Internet, playing CDs and audio files, using scanners, working with digital cameras and images, games, downloading software and fonts, USB storage devices, PDAs, printing, Internet telephony, and more.
Introduction
Part I: Starting Out
Chapter 1: Welcome to the World of Linux… A La Xandros
Chapter 2: Metamorphosis: Installing Xandros on Your Machine
Chapter 3: An Alternative Blue World: Getting to Know the Xandros Desktop
Part II: Getting Things Done
Chapter 4: An Untangled Web: Setting Up Your Internet Connection
Chapter 5: There's No Place Like Home: Working with Your Files in the Xandros File Manager
Chapter 6: Ports of Call: Working with Floppies, CDs, DVDs, and Other Removable Media
Chapter 7: Control Freaks: Getting Things the Way You Want Via the Control Manager
Chapter 8: The Keys to the Gates of Oz, or the Gates of Xandros Anyway: Expanding and Updating Your System Via Xandros Networks
Part III: Gadgetry
Chapter 9: Making Lasting Impressions: Setting Up and Using Your Printer
Chapter 10: Flatbed Memories: Working with Your Scanner
Chapter 11: Because Memory Sometimes Fails to Serve: Digital Cameras
Chapter 12: Keeping Tabs on Yourself: Working with Your PDA
Part IV: Applications
Chapter 13: Surf's Up: Internet Applications
Chapter 14: Ear Candy: Xandros Does Audio
Chapter 15: Couch Potatoes: Xandros Does Video
Chapter 16: Doing the Left Bank: Working with Graphics Applications
Chapter 17: Stuffed Shirts: Office and Other Productivity Applications
Chapter 18: Time to Unwind: Gaming
Chapter 19: Kids' Stuff: Applications for Children
Part V: For the More Adventurous
Chapter 20: Want to Get a Little Geeky?: Using Linux Commands
Chapter 21: Proxy Settings
Glossary
View a sample chapter, Chapter 10: Flatbed Memories: Working with Your Scanner
Editado: Agosto 2005
496 páginas
ISBN-10: 1-59327-057-7
ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-057-5
Rickford Grant, author of Linux for Non-Geeks, has been a computer operating system maniac for more than 20 years, from his early days with an Atari XL600 to his current Linux machines. Grant spent the past seven years as an Associate Professor at Toyama University of International Studies in Japan before relocating to Wilmington, North Carolina.
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