Evening Alan Books I'd like to see either in dead tree or eBook formats:
1. A Windows User Guide to the Desktop - the MS way versus the vanilla Ubuntu way leading onto how to customise in easy non command line steps to make it look and feel like Windows. #### A subject tackled many times here, but there's a market for it IMO. 2. Ubuntu Guide To ....- where to get FF Plug Ins and what they do for instance, some of the Forum tutorials for novices to geeks on vanilla installations and most common alternatives 3. Home Networking the Ubuntu Way - all the things like Mac has recently touched on in his postings includeing a bit of back ground techy stuff 4. Library of Ubuntu - A hard copy description of everything in the repos includeing couple of paragraphs as to what it does, where to get it, and how to get it., and it's alternatives 5. The Family Ubuntu - top level stuff on Ubuntu and it's derivatives includeing basic where to get them from, what they do, how they differ to the others, and what you would use them for And more aimed at the glossy brochure type of thingy A. Case Studies in PLAIN non marketing / sales / management speak B. Techy brochure on what the various flavours of Ubuntu will run on, minimum requirements, and drivers known to work well. C. An Easy Guide to dealing with a problem - ie how to work out if you have a bug, where to go to and how to find out if anyone else has the bug, what to do if it's not an app in the Ubuntu repos etc Mind you, looking back on this list quite a few items are covered in some of the existing books out there, but I'm a fanicaty so and so, and I like my books in a certain style - card covered, monochrome text with relevant screen shots / pictures, and an index that actually gets you to where you're looking for info as well as a Glossary that is readable and understandable, treats you as an English speaker and not just American, and above all else, it's got to be CONSISTENT in it's approach throughout. <Dismounts hobby horse> Oh, and from a purely selfish point of view, a CD or link to a download so that I can load the book onto my PC for future reference without the need to lug those darn heavy books around. Ian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Pope Sent: 21 July 2008 16:27 To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [ubuntu-uk] What would you like in a book.. Whilst I appreciate that not everyone likes books in dead-tree form, some do, so let's focus this on that group of people who do. I've been wondering if there's a set of Ubuntu related topics that are not covered, or not covered well in the current set of books available. What would you like out of an Ubuntu book? Would you like to see tutorials, how-tos and guides for specific tasks, which would form a reference? Would you prefer a book that you could read cover to cover, to go from "zero to hero"? What do you think _others_ might like out of an Ubuntu book? What topic do you think would be appropriate? What do you think would not be appropriate? Answers welcome! Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
