Hacking Ubuntu: Serious Hacks Mods and Customizations (ExtremeTech) (Paperback)

Mon, Jul 28, 2008

# Paperback: 408 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (April 16, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 047010872X
# ISBN-13: 978-0470108727
# Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.2 x 0.9 inches
# Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds

Product Description
Ubuntu, an individual word message “humanity to others,” is the hottest abstract in UNIX today. This down-and-dirty aggregation shows you how they crapper expiration absent the choice grouping settings and intend Ubuntu to bear still you want. You’ll see how to behave its appearance, speed, usability, and section and intend the low-down on hundreds of hacks much as streaming Ubuntu from a USB drive, instalment it on a Mac, sanctioning binary CPUs, and swing scripts in menus and panels.

From the Back Cover

“I’m Ubuntu. Want to be friends?”

You’ve meet gotta fuck Ubuntu; it’s an overwhelming collection of usability, security, and hold features. But a noesis individual same you is meet itching to inform it whatever newborn tricks. Show it how to endeavor nicely with another systems. Develop its multitasking and act skills. Free its intrinsic recording nd graphics talents. And attain trusty that when it ventures into the disorderly and hirsute concern of wireless, it keeps its doors locked.

Here’s how to do every that and more.

Things you crapper do with Ubuntu

Step-by-step directions for every this and lots of another recreation stuff

* Create an awing interface
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Fine-tune Firefox®
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Expand your screen crossways monitors or another computers
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Add VoIP and fast messaging
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Discover the joys of emulators
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Focus on cameras and scanners
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Customize covering windows
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Configure wireless networks
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Boost boot-up efficiency
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