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Linux Books

Of course the Internet along with the help of Google is a great source of information. You can answer almost any question you have about Linux and find many tutorials, guides and help. However many people prefer reading this information on a printed book accesssible even when they are not online or don't have a computer in front of them. I've received many e-mails asking me to propose them a few good books regarding Linux commands, administration and for specific distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora etc. So, I've search for a few good books. Here they are. Happy reading!

Linux Books


Ubuntu guides

Ubuntu is a free Operating System based on Debian GNU/Linux. It has been rated as the most popular Linux distribution amongst Linux users according to Distrowatch. As it happens every six months a new version of Ubuntu has been released. Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala is here! Below you can find some helpful tutorials for old and new users!

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Post Installation Guide
Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Post Installation Guide
How to install Ubuntu Linux on Windows using VirtualBox


Fedora 12 Installation Guide

Fedora 12, codenamed Constantine, is released! Just for the info, Fedora is an RPM based Linux Distribution, an Operating system in other words, developed by the community supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora contains only free and Open Source software. Some of Fedora's 12 new features are Gnome 2.28, KDE 4.3, better web cam support!, and many others.

Fedora 12 Installation and Post-Installation Guide
Fedora 11 Installation and Post-Installation Guide
Fedora 11 Installation and Post-Installation Guide in Chinese


ImToo DVD Ripper Platinum is a powerfull and fast DVD ripping software. It allows you to rip DVD to AVI, iPod MPEG4, PSP MP4, PSP AVC video, Zune, WMV, DivX, MPG, RM, MOV, 3GP, Apple TV video, MP4, MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, M4A, MP2 and many others. First download ImToo DVD Ripper Platinum or buy ImToo DVD Ripper Platinum. Install it and let's start with the tutorial part!

Run ImToo DVD Ripper Platinum and the following screen will appear. Insert your DVD into your DVD drive and press the dvd button (1) to load it into the program.



In the dialog box select your DVD drive and click "OK" to load the DVD.



The DVD chapters will appear in the main screen of the program. If you want to rip the entire DVD just leave everything ticked (1). You can also select certain titles or chapters of the movie to be ripped. To do so remove the tic from any title you don't want. You can see a preview of its title in the preview window (2) if you highlight it and press the play button (3).



Next you have to choose the Audio, Subtitles and Angle. In Audio drop menu (1) you can see all the audio settings included in the movie. From Subtitles drop box choose your preferable subtitle (2). If don't want any subtitles just choose none. Angle 1 (3) should be ok for most movies.



Now it's time to choose the output format from the "Profile" drop menu (1). There are many supported formats such as SVCD, VCD, 3gp, aac, Apple TV, Archos, avi, BlackBerry, Creative Zen, DivX, XviD flv, iPhone, iPod, iRiver, mov, Zune, ogg, PS3, PSP and many others! Here we will use XviD. The default "Zoom" (2) option is Letterbox which will put black borders at the top and the bottom of the movie. If you want your final video final file to be one single file leave "Split" (3) to Infinite.  However you can choose the final file to fit in a single 650MB, 700MB or 800MB CD disk. Next select a "Destination" (4) Folder which should have enough free disk space.



At the right panel you have some extra Video and Audio options. The default values should be ok but you can alter anything you want.



Now you are ready to rip the movie. Click the red button (1) and all the ticked items will be ripped in your hard disk. At any time you can pause or stop the ripping process if you click on the arrow next to the red button (2).



When the conversion is finsished click the "Open" button (1) to browse the folder with the movie video file. Enjoy!



Download ImToo DVD Ripper Platinum. The trial version has a limitation of encoding only 5 minutes of each movie title. To rip the whole movie you have to buy ImToo DVD Ripper Platinum.

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Found a complimentary guide like this one about IMToo
Hi!

Great guide, if I may say. It gives me a better confidence on how to do DVD ripping.

I used this and another guide I found while googling:

Saving a Copy of your Favorite DVD Movies into your Computer

to build my confidence on what I needed to do.

Let me just say that information sharing from around the 'net is a great help to newbies like me.

Thanks axel!

Charles K. , September 26, 2009
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Hi Charles! I'm glad that my guide helped you to rip your DVDs. All of us have to start from somewhere and the Internet is this place for sure!
axel , September 26, 2009

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