Ubuntu-Apps - Kevin Prag

              
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Today, it is possible to do pretty much everything using free software. This starts at the operating system level with Linux. Linux is free, stable, and has lots of free software available for it. One of the most popular Linux distributions today is Ubuntu Linux.

Ubuntu's user community is so large that most questions will be answered within a day or less when posting to their forum. This large user base makes Ubuntu the most popular Linux distribution and the distribution that Ubuntu Apps is written for. In addition to the OS, many different free applications are readily
available for almost any need, without paying a cent. Ubuntu is currently good enough for most people, allowing users to browse the web, check email, play games, use the printer, sync iPods, play videos and many other things.

About this book

Ubuntu Apps is about how to run your computer completely on free software. Some of this software in the book is open source while some is not. This book is written from a different perspective from most other Linux or Ubuntu books in that it focuses on using the GUI to do almost everything and not the terminal.
Ubuntu Apps is written to be as easy to use as possible and is especially aimed at those using Windows who wish to explore Linux.

This book provides the reader with the applications needed to get work done or for leisure and entertainment. Not all of the applications are listed, just the ones that are the best or most useful. Most of the programs listed in this book are GUI based programs.

Throughout this book, instructions on how to do configurations through the GUI are used as much as possible. Throughout the book are links to the application project pages, and instructions on how to install the applications.

Why I wrote this book

I noticed that most of the books on the shelves were either written for one particular application, or were far too technical for the average Windows user.
I've also seen many top Linux applications lists on the internet that show every software applications for a particular category or offer a list of nearly every application created, while not providing installation instructions.

I've looked through virtually every top free applications list on the web as well as going through nearly all of the software projects listed in Sourceforge.net while compiling the list. The applications provided in this book are not meant to be comprehensive for every special occupation. Rather, the applications listed are for general purposes. This book is about combining some of these aspects into a larger list, showing how to install the applications with screen shots, repository install names and links to the projects.