I’m a sucker for free, especially when it’s something that might prove useful to me. Today’s freebie is the PDF version of the Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference by Keir Thomas.
Now I’m a longtime Linux user. I got started with it back in the early 90’s, long enough to remember TAMU and Yggdrasil, though I was a Slackware man for quite some time. I still could be for that matter as it’s still around!
Actually before Linux I tried to get MINIX up and running but honestly, I can’t remember whether I ever did. I think I got it running but for some reason or another never did anything else with it. Even back then I was trying to stay away from Microsoft. 🙂
But no, these days my Linux boxen generally run Ubunutu. It’s an excellent distro and easy to install. The days are past when I longed to hack for hours to get something up and running, much less tuned. Today I’m happy with “it works out of the box.” Ubuntu does – at least on my hardware.
Still a free guide is really only a deal if it’s useful and while this looks geared for the newcomer, I don’t doubt I’ll pick up a trick or two.
Currently my I’ve got a couple machines running Ubuntu. My Toshiba Satellite is a single boot machine running Ubuntu, my MacBook runs it in Parallels, and finally, my Asus EEE PC 1000H dual boots with Ubuntu and XP (and I almost never boot XP – special circumstances only). I have an EEE PC 700 which I have booted Ubuntu from an SD card, but currently it uses the standard distro that it was delivered with (mostly because I’m lazy and almost never use the machine anyway).
So I’ve got a reason to go through book – 3 or 4 depending on how you count these things!
Aloha!
Slower, cheaper, less useful…