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You may be wondering why I'm reviewing a book on Ubuntu 7.10 ("Gutsy Gibbon") on the advent of the release of Ubuntu 8.04 ("Hardy Heron"). If I've waited all this time to review the Hudson and Hudson book (released last January), why not wait until 8.04 is released, and the 4th edition of this book is written and published (as I write this, there are 18 days to go until the 8.04 release date)? Good question. Originally, I had given serious thought to just that course of action. Then something changed.
I primarily "earn my daily bread" as a technical writer. Most of the time, my jobs are temporary contract work, so I don't stay at any one place for very long (on the order of months, usually...though I'm always in search of the "job of my dreams" that will keep me forever). Most of the time, I'm hired by a "Windows shop" and find myself working on a Windows XP machine (no Windows Vista yet, thank goodness). I usually adapt to the tools I'm provided and make suggestions where I can. Recently though, I was hired to work in a different kind of environment.
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