Ubuntu Netbooks: The Path to Low-Cost Computing (Beginning)

You’ve made the jump and have purchased your first netbook—a small laptop that is perfect for connecting to the internet, wireless communications, and working with cloud applications—including Google Docs, Flickr, Mobile Me, and many others. According to the creator of Linux, Linux Torvalds, netbooks are “are really just laptops done right‘. Now you need to decide on the Linux distribution that will work best with your netbook, Millions of users have already come to the consensus that Ubuntu is the most compatible, and thus, it’s the number one most popular Linux distribution, and is currently running on 25 % of all netbooks. This book is a thorough guide to the basics of Ubuntu—including installation, getting online, configuration, and administration.