July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
book
Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Copyright © 2006 O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. All rights reserved.
Linux Journal and Linux Magazine
Linux Journal and Linux Magazine are monthly magazines for the Linux commu-
nity, written and published by a number of Linux activists. With both print
editions and web sites, they offer articles ranging from questions and answers for
novices to kernel programming internals. Linux Journal,athttp://www.
linuxjournal.com, is the older magazine and is published by S.S.C. Incorporated,
http://www.ssc.com. Linux Magazine is at http://www.linuxmagazine.com.
Usenet Newsgroups
Most people can receive Usenet news at work or through their ISPs. While this
communications technology has lost ground in the past several years to web-
based threaded discussions, it is still a valuable source of help and community
connections on many topics. The following Linux-related newsgroups are
popular:
comp.os.linux.announce
A moderated newsgroup containing announcements of new software, distri-
butions, bug reports, and goings-on in the Linux community. All Linux users
should read this group. Submissions may be mailed to linux-announce@news.
ornl.gov.
comp.os.linux.development.apps
Guidance for using features of Linux for application development, and for
understanding the effects of the operating system on user-space programs.
comp.os.linux.development.system
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