Free Download | Linux Timesaving Techniques For Dummies

Linux is open-source software at it’s finest. Open-source software is  all about taking control of your desktop away from the big corporations and putting it into the hands of the developers working with your best interests at heart. The software is freely available on the Internet for you to download — you can even help develop the projects if you want to get involved. Decisions about what’s on your desktop aren’t being made based on the profit margins yielded by the software. Instead, the best interests of the user are of primary concern to the developers. Although open-source software is great, have you ever tried to read the documentation that comes with it? Some of it is very good, but most of it is written for geeks, by geeks, and a good part of it is flat-out missing.  Don’t blame the developers — they are doing this for free after all. . . . Our goal in writing this book is to empower you with some of the stronger features of Linux (and some great open-source tools) to solve everyday problems, without the headaches and lost time that go with trying to figure out how to use the tools. Linux provides simple, fast, and powerful solutions to meet the demands of day-to-day computer use and system administration — our goal is to save you time, while making the tools easy to use.