Category: Books - Linux [Books about Linux which are available on-line.] (6)

Category: Books - Linux (6)
Books about Linux which are available on-line.

Bruce Perens' Open Source Series
Advanced books on Linux and open-source programming, free for download. Not for the beginner!

Free e-book: IBM's Linux Client Migration Cookbook, Version 2
Free e-book: Linux Client Migration Cookbook, Version 2: A Practical Planning and Implementation Guide for Migrating to Desktop Linux. 374 pages, PDF. Intended for small to large enterprise users, not home users.

Free Linux e-books
An archive of 100 free e-books about Linux. Limited to 10 downloads per day; donations to cover the cost of bandwidth appreciated.

Free Linux e-books (directory)
An index to all sorts of Linux books available for free download.

Free On-line Linux Technical Books and Tutorials
Linuxtopia's list of free on-line books about Linux. See especially "Linux for Beginners."

Wikibooks Linux Category
Free Linux e-books from Wikimedia's "Wikibooks" project.

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Newcomer's Glossary

applications: The software that lets you do things with your computer (word processor, Internet browser, email, etc.). The programs you see and use.

distribution: Also called "distro." An operating system (usu. Linux) combined with a selection of application programs, in a ready-to-install form. Different distributions are customized for different purposes, e.g., desktop computing, music editing, Internet server, and so on.

FOSS: "Free / Open Source Software," a catch-all term. Sometimes F/OSS or FLOSS.

free software: Refers to free as in freedom, not free as in free beer. Specifically, the freedom to run, study, share, and modify the software.

howto: A short tutorial telling "how to" perform some task. See, for instance, the Linux HowTos.

Linux: Strictly, GNU/Linux. A free operating system, modeled on Unix, developed since 1991 by volunteers around the world.

open source: Refers to software whose source code can be examined, modified, and redistributed. Similar to but not exactly the same as "free software."

operating system: The software that manages your computer's hardware (disk drives, display, network connection, etc.). The stuff "under the hood" that makes your computer work.

repository: An on-line library of application programs for a particular distribution, in a ready-to-download-and-install format. In many distributions, programs can be installed from the repository with just a few mouse clicks.

Unix: A computer operating system originally released by Bell Labs in 1970. It is still widely used in several commercial variants, and in the open-source BSD Unix.