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Do you want to get up and running on Linux by end of tonight? You can do this with this book.
We’re going to walk you step-by-step through installing Linux on your computer without affecting your current operating system. You’ll install Linux in a virtual machine, the simplest way to use Linux alongside your current environment. We’ll then show you how to poke around the system, keeping you busy until dawn, if you want us to :]
Why would you want to have Linux on your computer? There’re plenty of reasons. Maybe you’re thinking about a lucrative career as a systems administrator – we can get you started on that path. Or maybe you want to get the liberating feeling, the pride of having an open-source operating system on your computer, free from the lock-in of proprietary systems – we can help you with that. Or perhaps you just want to get your job done with Linux – we’ll show you how to get it done fast, whether you’re a student or a professional.
By the end of this book, you’re going to have a working Linux environment, will know how to find the information you need in the standard Linux manuals and how to poke around files and directories – plenty of information to manage files on a real-world web hosting account, for instance.
Still have questions? We can help you on a live video call using the CodeMentor platform – the first 15 minutes is free!
Hungry for more? This book is the first in the Userbie series, a set of six books that will take you for the full journey to becoming a Linux expert. The remaining books are currently a work in progress. Sign up at the Userbie website to get the latest news on the series.
And the best part is – the book is available online without any charge whatsoever – it's Open Source like Linux itself. Ready? Then let’s dive in.
The publisher of this edition is KZS Press, trading name of KZS Commerce Ltd, 7 Kings Avenue, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M8 5AS, United Kingdom.
The corresponding author and editor is:
Aleksander Korzyński: ak AT wants-no-spam.akorzy.com (remove "wants-no-spam.")
Website: userbie.com
Copyright © 2007-2015, 2020 Netsec BVBA, Paul Cobbaut, Aleksander Korzynski
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- Java : on Ubuntu we use the Canonical partner provided sun-java6-bin
package. We have a JAVAHOME hardcoded to this somewhere in the build script.
- sun-java6-bin
- default-jdk
- xsltproc : for building the html pages
- fop : for building pdf documents
- make.sh : builds the book, run it without arguments to get some help.