Ubuntu 10.10 Essentials

By: Neil Smyth

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eBook | 2 May 2011

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The purpose of this book is to provide the essential knowledge required to install use and maintain an Ubuntu 10.10 system. Beginning with the basics this book covers the history of Linux and Ubuntu installation from CDROM and USB flash drive dual boot configuration configuring the desktop and implementing wireless networking. Subsequent chapters cover topics such as disk partitioning configuring a firewall setting up a web server enabling email access adding disk drives and swap space configuring KVM based virtualization providing remote desktop access via an SSH tunnel X11 forwarding printer configuration user and group administration and Windows resource sharing. Consisting of 40 chapters of practical examples and detailed content Ubuntu 10.10 Essentials takes a thorough step by step approach to installing using and administering Ubuntu 10.10.