July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Linux Network Administrator’s Guide (O’Reilly). In addition to these and other
Linux titles, O’Reilly’s wide range of Unix, X, web-related, and scripting and
programming language titles may also be of interest to the Linux user.
Online Documentation
The Internet is full of information about Linux. One of the best resources is the
Linux Documentation Project at http://www.tldp.org (or one of the dozens of
mirror sites around the world), which has numerous short guides called
HOWTOs, along with some full manuals. For online information about the GNU
utilities covered in this book, consult http://www.gnu.org (also widely mirrored).
The Free Software Foundation, which is in charge of the GNU project, publishes
its documentation in a number of hardcopy and online books about various tools.
Each distribution maintains its own web site, and contains documentation for the
software it provides as well as guides to maintaining your system under that
distribution.
Web Sites
As befits a hot phenomenon, Linux is the central subject of several web sites and a
frequent topic of discussion on others. Some sites offer original content; others
just have links to articles posted elsewhere and threaded discussions (which can
be a useful service). Among the sites frequented by Linux users are: ...
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