Ubuntu Unleashed 2010 Edition
December29
I just received my copy of Ubuntu Unleashed 2010 Edition and I am thrilled. Since I am one of the authors, consider this more of an announcement than a review as well as an invitation to take a look and see if the book interests you. This book is intended for intermediate to advanced users, as opposed to my work on The Official Ubuntu Book, which is aimed at being an introduction of Ubuntu to people new to Linux.
Interesting that it reads “10.4″ at the bottom right.
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Looking good
Ubuntu Unleashed is definitely worth a buy if you want to get to know Ubuntu a lot better. Had the pleasure of reading Ubuntu Unleashed for 7.04.
Daniel: Argh. I commented that this needed fixing more than once during the process. I will have more control during the next iteration as the Hudson brothers are not going to be involved with the book any longer and I’ll be the primary person responsible (note: I’m not blaming them, this error just slipped through somehow despite attempts to fix it). Hopefully we won’t see a repeat of such a silly mistake.
Martin: thanks for the kind words.
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You say you’ll have more control – does this mean that you and Ryan will be writing a lot of it?
Joe: all of it. I already have the next revision mapped out ready to be (re)written. We expect it to come out next June.
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“note: I’m not blaming them, this error just slipped through somehow despite attempts to fix it”
That’s good, because we weren’t involved with this at all – no words, no PDFs, no cover proofing, etc. In fact, the first time we were told the book was even happening was when we were told someone else had already written it
Still, this is a bit of a silly thing to put on the cover, particularly given the top review for the book on Amazon says that it’s barely updated for Ubuntu 9.10 never mind the twinkle-in-Shuttleworth’s-eyes that is 10.04. I’m not sure how valid that review is, mind you, as Pearson don’t seem to have bothered sending a book out to me as yet.
You – or someone – should be have been sent a PDF proof copy of the cover to approve. You might want to give them a kick about this to make sure it happens for the next version.