Try ISBN-10 0-598-51493-x. Consider Knoppix Hacks to be training wheels for Linux

This stuff is not intended for the "plug and play" crowd. If that is your desire buy a Mac.
There are fifteen different sound editors.
A dozen film editors.

Able to run from a bootable CD or flash drive - this is a screaming fast way to bypass MS Bloat...

Next to Gibson's this is a clean way to recover lost data.

I have a hunch - you will be unhappy - the 392 page book with CD retails for just under 22.00 USD.

(Hogwash = a packert scrubber that untomatically blocks packets that trip snort runles)