Ubuntu on a Dime: The Path to Low-Cost Computing (Path to Low Cost Computing)

Ubuntu on a Dime: Building an Ubuntu PC on less than $300 is responsive to, and well-suited for the domestic economic situation. The book’s value proposition is devastatingly simple: For $25, you can save hundreds of dollars in software costs by learning to take advantage of cheap hardware and zero-cost software freely available on the Internet. The book and its message appeal powerfully to the first-time computer buyers who have to spend his or her budget on cheap, but powerful hardware and the build-out that uses only zero-cost software. From senior citizens to students, from corporate drones to small business-people, readers of all types can benefit from the research that author James Kelly has put in to choosing the solutions described in this book. James has done the research and presents best-of-breed solutions in every common software category, from digital photo management to word processing, from motherboards to DVD drives. Ubuntu on a Dime: Building a Ubuntu PC on less than $ 300 doesn’t confuse readers with choices. Instead, the book presents a clear and simple menu of hardware and software solutions that will get the job done. All the author’s choices are reasonable, and readers can feel secure in following the author’s straightforward and well-defended advice. Written in the comfortable, knowledgeable tone that make James Kelly’s Lego NXT books the best in their category, Ubuntu on a Dime is the book that will open the average person’s eyes to the joys of low-cost computing. James Kelly takes the PC and turns it from a bottomless, money-pit into a center of creativity. Ubuntu on a Dime gives the power and promise of technology back to those who can least afford it, but who perhaps most need it.