This book is a user guide for the Linux desktop. It is everyone's guide to Linux

- that includes both average home users and office workers. It covers getting

on the Internet, e-mail, Web browsers (including Firefox), office applications

(word processors, spreadsheets, presentations - primarily the OpenOffice.org

suite), playing and ripping songs, burning CDs, watching movies, playing

games, etc.

New to this edition of the book is coverage of digikam, an iPhoto-like linux

application for managing digital photos; and FireFox, the newest and hottest

browser from the Mozilla foundation. In addition, all of the OpenOffice.org

coverage has been updated to the upcoming 2.0 release, which critics are calling

a "microsoft office killer" application. And all of the KDE material has been

updated to the upcoming 3.4 release.