Negus Live Linux Series

Your Practical, Hands-On Guides to Getting Real Results with Free Software

Each book in the Negus Live Linux Series encourages and challenges you to advance in the free software world. Boot the live DVD or CD that comes with each book and watch the Linux system, applications, and content described in the book come to life before your eyes. When you are finished, you will know how to use, customize, and rebuild that free and open source software yourself. Start as a novice by trying out examples and finish as a professional, mastering the many topics covered in the series, from building PHP/MySQL sites to customizing Live CDs and more.

Overseeing the series is Christopher Negus, bestselling author of the Red Hat Linux Bible series, Linux Toys series, and the signature book for this series, Linux Live CDs.

Live Linux® CDs: Building and Customizing Bootables
By Christopher Negus
November 2006

Dream the perfect computer system, then build it to run on a Linux live CD! A Linux live CD is more than just a Linux system you carry around. Start with a live CD that has all your favorite applications. Include and play photo slideshows, presentations, Web content, and music collections. Incorporate your own designs, colors, and images to appear everywhere from the boot prompt to the desktop.

Practical PHP and MySQL®: Building Eight Dynamic Web Applications
By Jono Bacon
November 2006

Build Dynamic Web Sites Fast, with PHP and MySQL...Learn from Eight Ready-to-Run Applications! Suddenly, it’s easy to build commercial-quality Web applications using free and open source software. With this book, you’ll learn from eight ready-to-run, real-world applications–all backed by clear diagrams and screenshots, well-documented code, and simple, practical explanations.

Coming Soon in the series:

Ajax Construction Kit
By Michael Morrison
Learn how to customize and deploy plug-and-play AJAX components to add modern interactivity to Web pages. This book focuses on reusing modular, self-contained examples.

The Official Damn Small Linux Book: the tiny adaptable Linux that runs on anything
By Christopher Negus, Robert Shingledecker, and John Andrews
This book is for those who want to take their data on the road along with the applications to work with it, and those who want to use Damn Small Linux to develop hardware and software solutions.

Press Release

UPPER SADDLE RIVER, NJ-December 12, 2006- Prentice Hall Professional's new Negus Live Linux Series is debuting with two titles: Live Linux CDs by series editor Christopher Negus, and Practical PHP and MySQL: Building Eight Dynamic Web Applications, by Jono Bacon. Each book in the series includes "live" DVDs or CDs, which allows readers to run Linux, the free, open-source operating system, on their computers without installing software.

Live Linux CDs shows readers how to customize (SLAX or Damn Small Linux), remaster (KNOPPIX), or build from scratch (Fedora and Gentoo) live CDs. Special sections also help them build live CDs for presentations, multimedia, security, clustering, and firewalls.

Practical PHP and MySQL helps readers learn from eight ready-to-run applications, all backed by clear diagrams and screenshots, well-documented code, and practical explanations. Each application can be run live and modified from the bootable Ubuntu Linux live CD included with the book.

Christopher Negus has been one of the world's leading authors of Linux books for nearly a decade. Before becoming a full-time author, Negus worked on UNIX operating system development at AT&T Bell Labs, UNIX System Labs, and Novell in the 1980s and 1990s. Jono Bacon works for Canonical as the Ubuntu Community Manager and is an established speaker, author and regular contributor to the Open Source community. He is co-author of The Official Ubuntu Book, also published by Prentice Hall Professional (July 2006).

"Each book in the Negus Live Linux Series lets readers learn from working examples," said Negus. "For each topic, they can run the software, work with it, change it, and use it for their own Web site, live CD or professional project."

Forthcoming titles in the series, to be released in 2007, include Ajax Construction Kit and Damn Small Linux Portable Projects. For updates on new releases and more information about the series, please visit www.prenhallprofessional.com/livelinux.

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NOTE TO EDITORS:
Praise for Live Linux CDs -
"Negus shows both newbie and guru that there is much more to the world of Linux Live CDs than meets the eye."-James Pyles, Linux Pro Magazine;
http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/74/Book_Reviews.pdf

Praise for Practical PHP and MySQLL -
"If you want to learn PHP and MySQL and follow along with some useful real-world examples in the process, this is the book for you."-Matt Stephens, Application Development Trends; http://www.adtmag.com/blogs/blog.aspx?a=19720