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Publication Date: March 2000 | ISBN-10: 0764506501 | ISBN-13: 978-0764506505
Love Linux but looking for a better desktop? GNOME is the answer, and you can master it quickly and easily with GNOME For Linux For Dummies. Written in a fun style and packed with tips, this book guides you through the installation, setup, and mastery of GNOME. You'll discover how to:
Set up one-click access to programs.
Manage files and directories by using icons and windows.
Redecorate your desktop.
Master GNOME scheduling and spreadsheet software.
Manipulate graphics like a pro with GIMP.
Plus, you get a CD-ROM with the latest version of GNOME, dozens of GNOME themes and wallpapers, and a selection of GNOME applications (including the most popular games).
The latest version of GNOME, ready to go in RPM format!
Dozens of GNOME themes and wallpapers
A selection of the best third-party GNOME applications
From the Back Cover
CD-ROM includes latest version of GNOME!
Packed with tips and shortcuts to get you started
Customize the look and feel of your Linux desktop with GNOME today! Welcome to the world's best graphical desktop for Linux: GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment)! It's an environment with no toxic waste, and the only endangered species is confusion. If you want your computer desktop to work the way you do, GNOME For Linux® For Dummies® shows you the best and least painful ways to get the job done — quickly and easily. all this on the bonus CD-ROM The latest version of GNOME, ready to go in RPM format Dozens of GNOME themes and wallpapers A selection of the best third-party GNOME applications PC running Linux with WT 1.4.2 or higher (as included in most popular Linux packages); CD-ROM drive. See CD appendix for details and complete system requirements.
Discover how to: Set up one-click access to all programs Manage files and directories using icons and windows Redecorate your desktop with themes and backgrounds Harness GNOME scheduling and spreadsheet software
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With nearly 1.5 million books in print, David D. Busch is the world's #1 selling author of camera-specific guidebooks, and the originator of popular series like David Busch's Pro Secrets, David Busch's Compact Field Guides, David Busch's Guides to Digital SLR Photography, and David Busch's Quick Snap Guides.
Most of his hugely successful books for Nikon, Canon, Sony, Pentax, Olympus, and Panasonic digital cameras are the top-selling guidebooks for their respective camera models. His advice has been featured on NPR's "All Tech Considered."
Busch's dozens of other books devoted to digital photography include David Busch's Digital Infrared Pro Secrets and Mastering Digital SLR Photography. As a roving photojournalist for more than 20 years, he has illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. Busch has operated his own commercial studio, suffocated in formal dress while shooting weddings-for-hire, and shot sports for a daily newspaper and upstate New York college. His photographs and articles have been published in magazines as diverse as PhotoGraphic, Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He's also reviewed digital cameras for CNet Networks and Computer Shopper.
As a writer, photographer, and contributing editor for ten magazines, he has more than 130 books and 2500 articles to his credit. A PR consultant for Eastman Kodak Company's photography divisions for nearly 20 years, Busch has published photography articles under his by-line in Popular Photography & Imaging, PhotoGraphic, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer and other photo magazines. His photos have appeared on the covers of magazines, and in both print and television advertising.
The graduate of Kent State University operated his own photo studio and was a principal in CCS/PR, Inc., one of the largest public relations firms based in San Diego, working on press conferences, press kits, media tours, and sponsored photo trade magazine articles. In addition to Kodak, CCS photography clients included Hewlett-Packard. He sold his interest in CCS in 1992 to become a full-time author, photographer, and reporter.
Since then, Busch has become one of the leading photojournalist/authors in the United States. He has had as many as five books appear simultaneously in the Amazon.com Top 25 Digital Photography Books, and when Michael Carr of About.com named the top five digital photography books for beginners, the #1 and #2 choices were his Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies and Mastering Digital Photography. Several of his digital imaging books have sold in excess of 50,000 copies.
Busch was a featured guest speaking on digital photography on Toronto's Breakfast Television show in 2005, was the keynote speaker at the Dayton Computerfest, and has been a call-in guest for 22 different radio shows nationally and in major markets, including WTOP-AM (Washington), KYW-AM (Philadelphia), USA Network (Daybreak USA), WPHM-AM (Detroit), KMJE-FM (Sacramento), CJAD-AM (Montreal), WBIX-AM (Boston), ABC Radio Network (Jonathan & Mary Show).
His work has been translated into Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Bulgarian, German, Italian, French, and other languages. his web site is http://www.dbusch.com.
This review is from: GNOME for Linux for Dummies (Paperback)
I think this title is probably okay for an absolute beginner in computing. The author forgets, however, that most users of GNOME already at least know Windows.
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This review is from: GNOME for Linux for Dummies (Paperback)
One of the best book I've read, I NEVER READ books for Dummies, but this is the best among them I recommend it every Linux newbie. This book chaged my look at Linux. Covers all GNOME details from simple to advanced. Get this book you never be sorry take my word!
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This review is from: GNOME for Linux for Dummies (Paperback)
I think this title is probably okay for an absolute beginner in computing. The author forgets, however, that most users of GNOME already at least know Windows.
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