[LINUX_Newbies] Re: The Official Ubuntu Book

Leafing through the massive book I was a bit intimidated not only by its
size but the wealth of information continained within it including details
on Kubuntu which is also an Ubuntu-developed operating system.

The preface to this fourth edition by Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of
Ubuntu, is an encapsulation of what is ongoing in this enormous project
which is becoming more popular as time goes on.

Though I have not gotten official permission to do so here, I am submitting
a portion of Mark's preface to the newest edition of the book.

I quote:

"AS WE WRITE THIS, it is several years since we penned the first edition of
The Official Ubuntu Book and a year since the third. The last year has seen
Ubuntu continue its explosive growth.

In the process, this book, like Ubuntu, is beginning to mature. Like
Ubuntu, we have now put together our piece a few times and are beginning to
get more comfortable. Our job as authors, like that of the Ubuntu
developers, now involves more updating and polishing than it used to.
Distributed under a free license, a once-risky book on a once-risky
operating system is, just a few short years later, as close to a sure thing
as an author, publisher, and if we have done our job well, a reader, could
hope for.

And yet with success comes responsibility to our readers and to our users
with high expectations. Ubuntu's success is built in part of maturity and
excellence, and it cannot sacrifice these qualities if it will succeed. We
cannot either. Our job as writers is complicated because we need to
accurately reflect and represent both while catering to an increasing and
increasingly diverse group of users."

End quote

The quoted material is Copyright 2009 Canonical Ltd.

This will give you all an idea of the scope of this project. I hope to
learn a lot more about the entire thing and, as I go through the volume,
I'll share what I learn both from it and from my own experience in getting
to know Ubuntu 11.04

Aloha

Kele

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