Written by As I was scrolling through my Google Reader feeds during lunch today, I caught the post about the Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference, by Keir Thomas. I was intrigued, as I tend to be about anything that can make me a better Ubuntu user (mind you, I still have to find the time and the guts to SuperGrub my way back into my Ibex partition…curse you and your boot nabbing ways, Win7!). I zipped over to the author’s site in a hurry and grabbed myself a copy of the free .pdf version.
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I spent my lunch gobbling down homemade sweet potato soup and skimming the book, which is now a resident on my thumb drive. It seems very complete, and it had what I most wanted and needed: a crash course in terminal usage. It is a book that is truly built with the absolute beginner in mind though, so if you already have a pretty good idea what you’re doing, you’re going to want to skip most of the early chapters of the book, though skimming those sections sort of made me want to wipe my troubled Ibex partition mentioned above and give Wubi a shot. I’ll keep you posted. That being said, there were certainly many power user tips and tricks, and I’m sure anyone who uses Ubuntu could benefit from having this book on their desk or desktop.