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Vickie Nelson
Documents Room Librarian
vmn@uoregon.edu
Linux Desktop Garage by Susan Matteson
Matteson aims at non-techie beginners who want to try running Linux from a
graphical interface. Writing in a breezy style, she concentrates on Fedora
and Mandrake and covers email, web browsing, CD-ROM burning, photo editing,
and other common daily computing tasks.
Linux Desktop Hacks: Tips and Tools for Customizing and Optimizing Your
OS by Nicholas Petreley and Jono Bacon
Need to reduce the startup time for OpenOffice or create an Internet phone?
Browse through this O'Reilly book when you're ready to begin tweaking
your system. The 100 hacks cover the gamut of Linux issues and can help you
improve the look and behavior of your desktop.
How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know by Brian Ward
Directed
at the technically savvy reader who wants to master Linux from the ground up,
the book begins with a good overview of Unix and then moves on to intermediate
and advanced information on how Linux internals work.
A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming by Mark
G. Sobell
Linux guru Sobell offers a clear and comprehensive guide that shows users how
to get the most out of using Linux from the command line regardless of the
particular distribution of Linux they may be using. A reference that will help
users master the power and flexibility of the operating system.
Linux Enterprise Cluster: Build a Highly Available Cluster with Commodity
Hardware and Free Software by Karl Kopper
An excellent and straightforward guide for the system administrator planning
to build a network of computers that function as one powerful computer. Kopper
provides not only a detailed guide on how to do it, but also the theoretical
background on why to do it.
In addition to its collection of books on Linux, the Documents Room also has various distributions of Linux available on disks for checkout and installation, including, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Knoppix, Mandrake, SuSE, and Ubuntu.
Call 346-4406 for more information, or visit the Documents Room website at http://docsrm.uoregon.edu/