Point and Click Linux!: Your Guide to Trouble-Free Computing

"Robin's book will show you the benefits of switching to Linux immediately. Your computer will run faster and more reliably than you ever believed possible. Surfing the net will no longer be an exercise in paranoia. And you'll discover a whole new world of powerful, free software that can run rings around the programs available for Windows."

From the Foreword by Leo Laporte, Host of Call for Help on G4TechTV Canada and The Tech Guy on KFI 640 AM Los Angeles

The perfect gift for that Linux beginner in your life!

Have Linux up and running in 5 minutes or less with the incredible SimplyMEPIS bootable CD-ROM

Easy-to-follow videos on DVD

Linux made easy... incredibly easy!

Tired of Windows viruses, spyware, licensing hassles, and high costs? Try Linux!

Not sure Linux is up to the job? It is. Not sure you can learn Linux? You can. Linux expert and Open Source Developers' Network (OSDN) editor-in-chief, Robin "Roblimo" Miller, will teach you Linux the easy way: using the point-and-click skills you already have!

With the bootable SimplyMEPIS Linux software included on CD, you'll be running Linux in 5 minutes...no formatting, no partitioning, no technical hassles... just insert the CD, reboot your computer, and you're ready to go!!!

You don't need to be a computer expert! With Roblimo's step-by-step instructions and how-to videos, you'll master everything from word processing to the Web and email, instant messaging to CD burning... you name it.

Linux has never been this easy, this productive, or this much fun!

• Navigate Linux visually, the easy way, with KDE
• Get on the Web, send email, even build your own Web sites
• Create Microsoft Office-compatible documents with OpenOffice.org
• Instant-message and chat with all your friends—no matter what network they're on
• Import, edit, and manage your digital photos
• Burn CDs and DVDs
• Play the world's best open source games
• Download all the free software you'll ever need
• Coexist easily with Windows users

• CD features SimplyMEPIS Linux: start running Linux in 5 minutes, and get all the software you need to be productive!
• DVD features Roblimo explaining all you need to know in bite-sized video tutorials. All the Linux skills you really need are covered here... just watch, and do!

This guide teaches beginning computer users how to use Linux software to navigate the Web, email, instant message, word process, build web sites, burn CDs, and perform other tasks. SimplyMEPIS Linux software is included on a CD, which also provides step-by-step instructions and how-to videos. Illustrations and graphics that replicate the computer screen accompany the text. Miller is editor for OSTG, and has written about computers and the Internet for Time New Media, The Washington Post, and The Baltimore Sun, as well as for other websites and publications. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Aimed squarely at those new -- including perfectly new -- to using Linux at all, and it would make a fine non-intimidating manual for someone sitting down at his first computer. ...I discovered a few things about Linux and KDE that I'd never tried before reading the book, and know at least a dozen people I think would benefit from a copy.

A food writer and nutritionist, Robin Miller is a contributing editor for Health and Cooking Light magazines. She also develops recipes for the American Heart Association, the American Institute for Cancer Research, Weight Watchers, and Reynolds. Robin also answers nutrition-related questions posted to HealthAtoZ in the section "Ask the Expert." Robin has a master's degree in Food and Nutrition from New York University.