Table of Contents

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PART I

Prologue

Benjamin Humphrey Jamin Day

Introduction

• About this manual
• Welcome
• Who this manual is aimed at
• Contact details

The spirit of Ubuntu

• Ubuntu philosophy
• A brief history of Ubuntu
• Canonical
• Linux
• Is Ubuntu right for you?

Details here.

1. Starting out

Benjamin Humphrey Parry Mathur

Getting Ubuntu

• Downloading Ubuntu
• Ordering a free CD

Installing Ubuntu

• The LiveCD
• Using Wubi
• Partitioning
• Installation options
• Booting and Grub configuration

2. Around your desktop

Alistair Munro/Tom Cantara Ben VB (need surname)

• What is GNOME?
• Panels
• Appearance and themes
• Nautilus file manager

3. Default Applications

Matt Griffin and Ilya Haykinson Tom Cantara

• Rhythmbox
• F-Spot
• Open Office
• Tomboy
• Empathy
• Firefox
• Evolution
• Totem
• Ubuntu One

Details at the blueprint page

4. Preferences and Hardware

Deon Spengler Ilya Haykinson

• Printing
• Multiple Users
• Desktop Effects
• Appearance
• Screensaver/Wallpaper
• Display
• External devices
  • Connecting a Digital Camera
  • Connecting a Scanner
• Webcams
• Sound
• Disk Drives and Hard Drives
  • Mount external/USB drives
  • Mount internal drives/NTFS (Windows) Drives
  • Mount automatically at boot
• Networking

Details at the blueprint page

5. Software and Packaging

Wolter Hellmund Benjamin Humphrey

• Software Management in Ubuntu
• Software Center
• Deb packages
• Software Sources
• Synaptic Package Manager

• NEW Updating your computer (i.e. packages)

• NEW Upgrading your computer (i.e. distro)

PART II

6. The Command Line

Ryan Macnish Jamin Day

• understanding the terminal
• using the command line
• changing system settings
• advanced command line use

Details at the blueprint page

7. Security

Kelvin Gardiner JJ Laxton

• Why Ubuntu is safe
• Firewall
• Trusting your sources
• Users and permissions
• Sudo

8. Troubleshooting and System Maintenance

Elan Kugelmass Jamin Day

• Common problems
• Wireless connections
• Networking
• Music and Video

9. Learning more about Linux

Josh Holland - first half only Bryan Behrenshausen

• Other distributions
• Linux servers
• Free software
• Where you can get help

Extra Applications

Hussein Al Sayed Bryan Behrenshausen

• Cheese
• The GIMP
• Gnome Do
• Google Chrome
• Jokosher Audio Editor
• Sun Virtualbox
• VLC
• Wine

Glossary of Terms

Paritosh Mathur/Conrad Volle

Index

Joe Burgess

Credits

Benjamin Humphrey

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Comments

• Added names of allocated editors to some chapters --JaminDay 2010/01/13

• Huge overhaul due to bug #504668 - old ToC can be found here.

• Updated to reflect latest content/structure changes as of 2010/03/03 (i.e. removed old chapter 6) --JaminDay