Book description
The Java Desktop System (TM), from Sun Microsystems, is a modern system for all kinds of users, novice through expert. As an unusually robust, well-integrated desktop system, it may become the first to fulfill the promise of mass adoption for open source.
JDS brings Linux and other open source software up to a level of usability that makes them suitable for the enormous base of Personal Computer users including office workers, students, mobile and home users. It behaves pretty much the way a Windows or Mac user would expect, but with many more powerful features. JDS has seen widespread adoption in the United States, Britain, China, and elsewhere.
This book is the ideal guide to JDS: it is clear and direct, but loaded with insights from authors who have spent time working with, supporting, and enhancing the system. Tom Adelstein is an award winning polymath system designer; Sam Hiser is a respected business consultant with an itch that led him to become the marketing project lead for OpenOffice.org. Both are advocates for open source and founders of the Open Government Interoperability Project, members of the Open Source Software Institute and contributors to the JDShelp.org project.
This book carefully covers such housekeeping chores as setting up networking, updates, and backups. Then it enters into great depth concerning the key productivity tools every user needs: email, web browsing, instant messaging, word processing, spreadsheets, and slide presentations.
A number of chapters and appendices concerning useful tools, including things you can add to your system, rounds out this remarkably useful book. It has plenty to offer the new user as well as the seasoned Linux professional.
Table of contents
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Exploring the JDS Linux Desktop
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Introducing the JDS Linux Desktop
- 2. Essential JDS
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3. Toward JDS Proficiency
- Role of the Operating System
- JDS Printing System
- Gaining JDS Proficiency
- 4. JDS Networking
- 5. Maintaining and Supporting JDS
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6. Using the Internet Applications
- Email and Calendar
- JDS Instant Messenger (IM)
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Web Browser
- Web Browser Setup
- Web Browser Basics
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Web Browser Power Tips
- Quick entry for URLs
- Managing Bookmarks
- Creating Bookmark folders
- Filing Bookmarks
- Personal Toolbar
- Custom keywords
- Search
- Sidebar
- Tabbed browsing
- Pop-up blocking
- Allowing certain pop ups
- Cookies
- Managing history
- Clearing history
- Turning off the history function
- Master password security
- Manage passwords
- Macromedia Flash
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7. Word Processing with StarWriter
- StarWriter Basics
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StarWriter Power Tips
- Saving or Exporting to Common File Formats
- Power Formatting
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Styles
- The Stylist
- First example: applying a character style
- Stylist view modes
- Modifying styles
- Updating styles
- Adding new styles (or creating styles)
- Changing page styles in mid-document
- Changing headers or footers in mid-document
- Changing page numbers in mid-document
- Mirrored (odd and even) page formats
- Load (transfer) styles
- Templates
- Master Documents
- Collaboration with Documents
- Navigator
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Searching Documents: Find & Replace
- Insert Hyperlinks
- Word Count
- Password-Protecting Documents
- StarOffice Initial Setup
- StarWriter Customizations
- StarWriter’s File Format
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8. Spreadsheets and Presentations Using StarOffice
- StarCalc
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StarCalc Basics
- Opening Files
- Saving Files
- Exporting a File as PDF
- Sending Files as Email Attachments
- Entering Numbers
- Entering Labels (Text)
- Autofill
- Entering Simple Formulas
- Summing a Column of Numbers
- Moving Cell Contents
- Adjusting Widths and Heights
- Merging Cells
- Basic Formatting
- Freezing and Splitting Windows
- Page Break View
- Setting the Print Range
- Functions
- Creating Graphs
- Worksheets, or Sheets
- Sorting Data
- Data Sources
- Macros
- StarImpress
- StarImpress Basics
- 9. Using Windows Applications with JDS
- 10. Using Other JDS Software
- A. Linux Commands
- B. Online Documentation
- C. Secure Connections Through SSH
- D. Using RPM Manager
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E. Known Problems and Solutions
- Problem: Panel Crashes
- Problem: Connecting by Modem
- Problem: Can’t Run File from Remote Directories
- Problem: Sound Recorder Slide Bar
- Problem: Sound Recorder Stops
- Problem: Backspace Is Inserted
- Problem: RPMs Don’t Recognize the Linux Release on Your Machine
- Problem: Clock Settings
- Problem: VMWare Failure
- Problem: Help
- Problem: Sun Java Desktop Doesn’t Support DVD Playback
- Problem: ATI Video Cards
- F. Installation Guide
- Glossary
- Index
- Colophon
Product information
- Title: Exploring the JDS Linux Desktop
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2004
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596007522
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