[dot] Marcel Gagne: Books Featuring KDE

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From: Fabrice Mous <fabrice at kde.nl>
Dept: we-want-more-books
Date: Monday 16/Feb/2004, @17:22

Marcel Gagne: Books Featuring KDE
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   Marcel Gagne, very famous for his "Cooking with Linux"
[http://www.marcelgagne.com/ljcooking.html]  columns in Linux Journal
[http://www.linuxjournal.com/], has informed us about his  second book
"Moving to Linux : Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!"
[http://www.marcelgagne.com/KBSODG/] It concentrates on the user
desktop, specifically KDE 3.1. This book covers basic desktop functions,
KMail, Konqueror, KDE printing, CD burning, multimedia, games, etc...
You can watch a nice slide presentation about the book in Shockwave
Flash or OpenOffice Impress on the site. Marcel has also stated that
beside bookstore sales, there a few desktop Linux training companies
that are starting to use the book as their Linux desktop guide. The book
comes with a remastered Knoppix [http://www.knoppix.net/] disk
featuring, you guessed it, KDE. But we have even more hot news ...

     We have a scoop about a new book Marcel is writing. He is finishing
his third book which will feature KDE 3.2
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.2.php] as  the corporate
desktop of choice.  In fact, the book is a blueprint for moving offices
from Windows to Linux desktops.  "I chose KDE as my primary desktop for
many reasons.  If I had to pick one over the others, it  would have to
be the sheer beauty of usability.  If ever there was a desktop
environment that could make the corporate world sit up and notice Linux,
it is most certainly KDE," notes Marcel.