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<!doctype linuxdoc system>
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<article>
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<title>The Linux Reading List HOWTO
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<author>by Eric S. Raymond
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<date>v1.11, 23 March 2000
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<abstract>
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This document lists the book I think are most valuable to a person
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trying to learn Unix (especially Linux) top to bottom.
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</abstract>
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<toc>
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<sect>Introduction
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<p>
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<sect1> Purpose of this document
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<p>
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This document lists what I consider to be the essential book-length
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references for learning Unix (especially Linux) and how to program under
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it.
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<sect1>New versions of this document
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<p>
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New versions of the Linux Reading List HOWTO will be periodically
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posted to <htmlurl url="news:comp.os.linux.answers"
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name="comp.os.linux.answers">. They will also be uploaded to
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various Linux WWW and FTP sites, including the LDP home page.
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You can also view the latest version of this on the World Wide
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Web via the URL
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<url url="http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Reading-List-HOWTO.html">.
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<sect1>Feedback and Corrections
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<p>
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If you have questions or comments about this document (or just
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want to suggest a book that you think should be on it), please feel
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free to mail Eric S. Raymond, at <htmlurl
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url="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com" name="esr@thyrsus.com">. I welcome any
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suggestions or criticisms.
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<sect1> Related Resources
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<p>
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For on-line HOWTOs, magazines, and other non-book material, see the
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<url name="Linux Documentation Project home page"
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url="http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO">.
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Some years ago I wrote a less Linux-focused Unix bibliography that
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may still be of some interest and retains a certain amusement
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value. You can find the Loginataka at <url
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url="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/loginataka.html">.
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SAGE, the System Administrator's Guild, maintains an excellent list
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of relevant books at <url
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url="http://www.usenix.org/sage/sysadmins/books/booklist.html">.
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<sect1> Conventions Used In This Document
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<p>
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Comments not in quotes below are either mine, or I have seen no reason to
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change them from those of Jim Haynes (previous maintainer of this document).
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Comments sent in by others are in quotes, and have the name of the
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commentator before them (JH is Jim Haynes).
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"See" URLs attached to publishing information point directly into the
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publisher's web catalog and typically take you to a page containing
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a cover shot, blurbs, and ordering information. Books that don't
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have these lack them because the publisher is using frames and the
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catalog pages can't be bookmarked.
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Topic listings go roughly from the outside in (culture to user-land
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programming to kernel programming to hardware). Within sections I have
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tried to list the most useful books first insofar as I am familiar with them.
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It's just an embarrassing coincidence that this lists one of my books
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first, honest! (Suggestions for a better organization cheerfully accepted.)
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</sect>
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<sect> Books on Culture, History, and Pragmatics
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<p>
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<descrip>
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<tag/The New Hacker's Dictionary (Third Edition)/
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Raymond, Eric S.; MIT Press; 1996; ISBN 0-262-68092-0; 547pp.<newline>
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See <url
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url="http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262680920">.
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Um, er. A guide to Internet culture. Lots of people like it. HTML
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at the <url url="http://www.tuxedo.org" name="Jargon File Resource
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Page">.
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<tag/A Quarter Century of Unix/
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Salus, Peter H.; Addison-Wesley; 1994; ISBN 0-201-54777-5; 256pp.<newline>
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See <url url="http://www.awl-he.com/titles/13683.html">
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Linux is part of the Unix tradition. This book is an oral history
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of Unix -- how it originated, how it evolved, how it spread -- by
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the people who were there.
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<tag/The Mythical Man Month (Anniversary Edition)/
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Brooks, Frederick P.; Addison-Wesley 1995 (ISBN 0-201-83595-9).<newline>
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See <url url="http://www.awl-he.com/titles/14147.html">.
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The one book on software engineering that everyone should read.
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Alan Cox: "This I'd recommend not for its technical
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value but for its application of common sense and reality to computing
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projects." JH: "Ah, yes. What if Linus had been given 200
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programmers and had been told to produce Linux in 3 months!"
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<tag/Bell System Technical Journal, July-August 1978, Vol. 57, No. 6, part 2/
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AT&T; 416 pp.<newline>
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Many early papers on Unix, including Ritchie & Thompson, "The UNIX Time
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Sharing System"; Thompson, "UNIX Implementation"; Ritchie, "A
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Retrospective"; Bourne, "The UNIX Shell"...
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</descrip>
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</sect>
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<sect> Books on General Unix/Linux
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<p>
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<sect1> Linux Installation and Administration
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<p>
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<descrip>
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<tag/Linux Installation and Getting Started/
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Welsh, Matt; LDP; 1997. Available on the LDP home page, or
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directly at <url url="http://linuxdoc.org/LDP/gs/">.
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How to bring up Linux. Explains a lot of Linux basics. Covers
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basic system administration.
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<tag/Linux System Administrator's Guide/
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Wirzenius, Lars; LDP; 1997. Available on the LDP home page, or
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directly at <url url="http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/sag/">.
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An excellent first book on how to maintain and administer a
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Linux system.
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<tag/Essential System Administration (Second Edition)/
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Frisch, Aeleen; O'Reilly; 1995; ISBN 1-56592-127-5; $34.95.<newline>
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See <url url="http://www.ora.com/catalog/esa2/noframes.html">.
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More in-depth coverage of normal system-administration tasks. Not
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Linux-specific but contains Linux material.
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</descrip>
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<sect1> Using Unix & Linux
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<p>
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<descrip>
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<tag/Linux in a Nutshell (2nd edition)/
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Hekman, Jessica P. et al.; O'Reilly;
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ISBN 1-56592-585-8,; 1999; 628 pp. $29.95.<newline>
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See <url url="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxnut2/">.
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According to O'Reilly, "The Desktop Reference for Linux". For
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Linux users this obsoletes their "Unix In a Nutshell" which was
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SVr4/Solaris-oriented.
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<tag/Running Linux (3rd Edition)/
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Welsh, Matt, & Matthias Kallw Dalheimer & Kaufman, Lar; O'Reilly;
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ISBN 1-56592-469-X; 1999; 650pp; $34.95.<newline>
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See <url url="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux3/">.
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Everything you need in order to understand, install, and use the
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Linux operating system. Excellent beginner's book.
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<tag/Hands-on-Linux/
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Sobell, Mark G.; Addison-Wesley;
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ISBN ISBN 0-201-32569-1; 1998; 1015 pp.<newline>
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Just what the title says -- practical tutorials in basic Unix,
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shells, editors, mail programs, networking, Web tools, and
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utilities. Covers some system administration fundamentals.
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(This appears to be a repackaging of 1997's ``A Practical Guide
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to Linux'' from the same author, without Caldera OpenLinux Lite
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included.)
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</descrip>
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<sect1> System Security
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<p>
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<descrip>
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<tag/Practical Unix and Internet Security (2nd Edition)/
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Garfinkel, Simpson, and Spafford, Gene; O'Reilly Associates; ISBN
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0-56592-148-8; 1004pp; 1996; $39.95. <newline>
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See <url url="http://www.ora.com/catalog/puis/noframes.html">.
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Ronald P. Miller: "Some overlap with Essential System Admin., but
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all in all a solid book on security, especially for those aspiring
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to allow multiple-user, dial-up/net access to their Linux boxes."
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<tag/Firewalls & Internet Security/
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Cheswick, William R. & Bellovin, Steven M.; Addison-Wesley;
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1994; ISBN 0-201-63357-4; 320pp.<newline>
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</descrip>
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</sect>
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<sect> Books on Shell, Script, and Web Programming
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<p>
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<descrip>
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<tag/Programming Perl (Second Edition)/
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Wall, Larry & Christiansen, Tom & Schwartz, Randal; O'Reilly; 1997;
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ISBN 0-56592-149-6; 644pp.<newline>
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See <url url="http://www.ora.com/catalog/pperl2/noframes.html">.
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Shell (as a programming language for more than trivial scripting)
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is dead. Perl rules in its place. This is the second edition of
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the definitive Perl book -- vastly better organized than the first,
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and it covers Perl 5.
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Emmanuel Pierre keeps a <url url="www.e-nef.com/perl/listeperl.html"
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name="short list of Perl books">.
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<tag/Programming Python/
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Lutz, Mark; O'Reilly; 1997; ISBN 0-56592-197-6; 880pp.<newline>
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See <url url="http://www.ora.com/catalog/python/noframes.html">.
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The next step beyond Perl. Python is beautifully designed, has
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better integration with C, and scales up better to large projects.
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<tag/HTML: The Definitive Guide (3rd Edition)/
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Musciano, Chuck & Kennedy. Bill; O'Reilly; 1998;
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ISBN 1-56592-492-4; 576pp.<newline>
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See <url url="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/html3/">.
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The best HTML tutorial/reference I have ever seen, and the only
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HTML book you need unless you also want to do CGI.
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<tag/The Unix Programming Environment/
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Kernighan, Brian, and Pike, Rob;
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Prentice-Hall; 1984; ISBN 0-13-937681-X; 1984.<newline>
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A true classic -- possibly the best single-book exposition of the
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Unix philosophy.
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</descrip>
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</sect>
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<sect>Books on Text Formatting
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<p>
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<sect1> Tex and LaTeX
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<p>
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<descrip>
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<tag/The LaTeX Companion/
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Goossens, Michael & Mittlebach, Frank, & Samarin, Alexander;
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Addison-Wesley; 1994; ISBN 0-201-54199-8; 530pp.<newline>
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See <url url="http://www.awl-he.com/titles/13661.html">.
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`If you are one of those users who would like to know how LaTeX can
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be extended to create the nicest documents possible without
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becoming a (La)TeX guru, then this book is for you' --- from the
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Preface. Bruce Thompson adds: "A very nice book providing a lot of
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information about the new extensions to LaTeX, provides a large
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number of examples showing precisely how your document's layout can
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be manipulated"
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<tag/LaTeX: A Document Preparation System (Second Edition)/
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Lamport, Leslie; Addison-Wesley; 1994; ISBN 0-201-52983-1; 256pp.<newline>
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See <url url="http://www.awl-he.com/titles/13632.html">.
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Bruce Thompson: "The ultimate reference on LaTeX 2.09 by its
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author. A new edition covering LaTeX2e (the version included in
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the current TeX/LaTeX distribution) is in preparation. LaTeX 2.09
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is fully supported by LaTeX2e. A must for anyone wanting to use
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LaTeX. Provides a gentle introduction to document preparation and
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the various tools that LaTeX provides for producing professional
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quality documents. Lots of examples."
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<tag/The TeXbook, Volume A of Computers and Typesetting; Knuth, Donald A./
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Addison-Wesley; 1986, ISBN 0-201-13448; 496pp.
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See <url url="http://www.awl.com/cp/TeXbook.html">
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Bruce Thompson: "The definitive user's guide and complete reference
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manual for TeX. Probably not needed for casual LaTeX use, but a
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fascinating book nonetheless." I'll strengthen that by adding
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that this book is not for the faint of heart.
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<tag/The METAFONT book, Volume C of Computers and Typesetting/
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Knuth, Donald A.; Addison-Wesley; 1986; 0-201-13444-6, 1986; 384pp.<newline>
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See <url url="http://www.awl.com/cp/METAFONTbook.html">
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Bruce Thompson: "The definitive user's guide and reference manual
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for METAFONT, the companion program to TeX for designing fonts. An
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excellent work if you're planning to design your own fonts for use
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in TeX and LaTeX. METAFONT is included with the normal TeX/LaTeX
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distribution." This book is <em>definitely</em> not for the faint
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of heart.
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</descrip>
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</sect>
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<sect>Good Programming Style
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<p>
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The following are classics on how to develop efficient programs:
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<p>
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<descrip>
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<tag/The Practice of Programming/
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Kernighan, Brian W. & Pike. Rob; 1999; Addison-Wesley;
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ISBN 0-201-61586-X.
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See <url url="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/">
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An excellent treatise on writing high-quality programs,
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surely destined to become a classic of the field.
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<tag/Programming Pearls (2nd Edition)/
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Bentley, Jon; 2000; Addison-Wesley;
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ISBN ISBN 0-201-65788-0.
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See <url url="http://www.programmingpearls.com/">
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These are selected essays from Bentley's column in the
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Communications of the ACM. He discusses a wide variety of issues in
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program improvement, include a large number on efficiency.
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<tag/Writing Efficient Programs./
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Bentley, Jon Louis; 1982; Prentice-Hall, Inc.;
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ISBN 0-13-970251-2 or 0-13-970244-X.
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This book presents Bentley's methodology and set of rules for improving
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program efficiency, and includes a large number of examples.
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</descrip>
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</sect>
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<sect> Books on C and C++ Programming
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<p>
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<sect1>C and C++
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<p>
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<descrip>
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<tag/The C Programming Language (Second Edition)/
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Kernighan, Brian W.; Ritchie, Dennis M; Prentice-Hall; 1988;
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ISBN 0-13-110362-8, 272pp.<newline>
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The improved second edition, covering ANSI C, of the original
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classic C book coauthored by C's designer, "K&R". Still the
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best!
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<tag/Who's Afraid of C++?/
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Heller, Steve; Academic Press; 1996; ISBN 0-12-339097; 508pp.<newline>
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The best introductory book on C++ I have seen. Now available
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<url url="http://www.steveheller.com/whos" name="on the Web">
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</descrip>
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<sect1> C System Call Interface
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<p>
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<descrip>
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<tag/POSIX Programmer's Guide: Writing Portable Unix Programs/
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Lewine, Donald; O'Reilly; 1992; ISBN 0-937175-73-0; 607pp.<newline>
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See <url url="http://www.ora.com/catalog/posix/noframes.html">.
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An excellent programmer's reference on the POSIX.1 standard.
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I like this one better than JH's choice.
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<tag/The Posix.1 Standard: A Programmer's Guide/
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Zlotnick, Fred; Benjamin, Cummings; 1991; ISBN 0-8053-9605-5; 379pp.;
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$35.95 (USA).<newline>
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JH: "When I complained about the lack of Section 2 man pages in
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Linux, somebody told me just to get a POSIX book, because that's
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what Linux does. I like this book because I'm not a professional
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programmer and the author gives copious explanations and examples."
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</descrip>
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<descrip>
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<tag/Advanced Programming in The Unix Environment/
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Stevens, Richard; 1992; ISBN 0-201-56317; Addison-Wesley
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A book on general Unix programming that is every bit as good as
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Stevens's classic on network programming.
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</descrip>
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<descrip>
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<tag/Linux Application Development/
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Michael K. Johnson, Erik W. Troan; 1998; ISBN 0201308215;
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Addison-Wesley.
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The best reference to the C API of Linux.
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</descrip>
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</sect>
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<sect> Books on Networking
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<p>
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<descrip>
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<tag/Unix Network Programming/
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Volume 1, Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI
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W. Richard Stevens,
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PTR Prentice-Hall, 1998
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ISBN 0-13-490012-X
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UNIX Network Programming 2nd Edition,
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Volume 2, Interprocess Communications
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W. Richard Stevens
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PTR Prentice-Hall, 1998
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ISBN 0-13-081081-9
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Everything you might want to know about the subject. Generally
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regarded as definitive on the basics.
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<tag/Linux Network Administrator's Guide/
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Kirch, Olaf; O'Reilly; 1995; ISBN 1-56592-087-2; 335pp.<newline>
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See <url url="http://www.ora.com/catalog/linag/noframes.html">.
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A practical guide to Linux's TCP/IP and related services.
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Accessible on the Web at the <htmlurl url="http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP"
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name="Linux Documentation Project"> page, or directly at
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<url url="http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/LDP/nag/nag.html">.
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<tag>TCP/IP Network Adminstration</tag>
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Hunt, Craig; O'Reilly Associates, ISBN 0-937175-82-X; 1992; 472pp.<newline>
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See <url url="http://www.ora.com/catalog/tcp2/noframes.html">.
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Less Linux-specific than the Kirch book. Features deeper
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coverage of the TCP/IP core, including routing and BGP.
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<tag/DNS and BIND (Second Edition)/
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Albitz, Paul, and Liu, Cricket; O'Reilly; 1998; ISBN 1-56592-512-2;
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502pp; $32.95.<newline>
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See <url url="http://www.ora.com/catalog/dns2/noframes.html">.
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In-depth coverage of DNS, useful for people running complicated
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multiple-subnet installations. Covers BIND library programming.
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<tag/Sendmail (Second Edition)/
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Costales, Bryan & Allman, Eric; O'Reilly;
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ISBN 1-56592-222-0; 1997; 1050 pp; $32.95<newline>
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See <url url="http://www.ora.com/catalog/sendmail2/noframes.html">.
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An exhaustive (and exhausting) guide to Linux's and Unix's default
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mail-transfer agent.
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</descrip>
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</sect>
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<sect> Books on Unix Kernel Implementation
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<p>
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<sect1> Ancestors of Linux
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<p>
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<descrip>
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<tag/The Design of the Unix Operating System/
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Bach, Maurice J.; Prentice-Hall; ISBN 0-13-201799-7; 470pp.; $60 (USA).
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The book that got Linus started. See <url url="http://www.prenhall.com/books/ptr_0132017997.html">
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<tag/Operating Systems, Design and Implementation;/
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Tanenbaum, Andrew S.; Prentice-Hall; 1987.
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See <url url="http://www.prenhall.com/books/esm_0136386776.html">.
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Alan Cox (one of the core kernel people) likes this book. Tanenbaum
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designed Minix, which is the system Linus bootstrapped Linux up from.
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</descrip>
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<sect1>Linux
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<p><descrip>
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<tag/The Linux Kernel book/
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R<>my Card, Èric Dumas, Franck Mével; John Wiley and Sons; 1998;
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ISBN 0-471-98141-9. $100 (AUS).
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(Translated from the French language edition of "Programmation
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Linux 2.0"; same authors; 1997; <20>ditions Eyrolles; Paris, France.)
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||
|
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A very interesting and informative description of the operation of
|
||
the kernel that fills in the gap between the POSIX interface and
|
||
"The Design of the Unix Operating System" and the Linux source
|
||
code. A good understanding of the design and operation of a Unix
|
||
OS is a pre-requisite, but this book is an excellent help to going
|
||
beyond that general understanding into actual work.
|
||
|
||
The primary author is one of the core developers for the ext2
|
||
filesystem, and the Linux Kernel book shows a firm grasp of the
|
||
matter and clear explanations and structure. It's surprisingly
|
||
readable for something working at such a low level. The book does
|
||
seem to have suffered a little in the translation to English --
|
||
there are a few typos and grammatical mistakes, but it's quite
|
||
readable. (The code example files are charmingly still named in
|
||
French.)
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||
|
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Network protocol implementations are not covered.
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||
|
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The book's current to Linux 2.0.35 and foreshadows 2.1 and 2.2.
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</descrip>
|
||
|
||
<p><descrip>
|
||
<tag/Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide/
|
||
Johnson, Michael K.
|
||
|
||
Accessible on the Web at the <htmlurl url="http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP"
|
||
name="Linux Documentation Project"> page, or directly at
|
||
<htmlurl url="http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html">.
|
||
|
||
<tag/LINUX Kernel Internals (Second Edition)/
|
||
Beck, Michael & Bohme, Harold & Mirko, Dziadzka & Kunitz, Ulrich &
|
||
Magnus, Robert & Verworner, Dick; Addison Wesley; 1998;
|
||
ISBN:0-201-33143-8; 480.<newline>
|
||
See <url url="http://www.awl-he.com/titles/11653.html">.
|
||
|
||
A guide to Linux kernel programming; covers 2.0.
|
||
|
||
</descrip>
|
||
|
||
<sect1> Relatives of Linux
|
||
<p><descrip>
|
||
<tag/The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Unix Operating System/
|
||
McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Bostic, Keith, Karels, Michael J., and
|
||
Quarterman, John S.; Addison-Wesley; 1996; ISBN 0-201-54979-4;
|
||
608pp.<newline>
|
||
See <url url="http://www.awl-he.com/titles/13693.html">.
|
||
|
||
The successor to a classic book on the implementation of the 4.3 BSD
|
||
kernel, which influenced Linux's design (especially near sockets
|
||
and networking). This book covers the 4.4BSD base of BSD/OS,
|
||
FreeBSD, and NetBSD.
|
||
|
||
<tag/Porting Unix to the 386; Jolitz, William F., and Jolitz, Lynne G./
|
||
Dr. Dobb's Journal; Jan 1991-July 1992.
|
||
</descrip>
|
||
|
||
</sect>
|
||
|
||
<sect> Books on Intel processor architecture and programming
|
||
<p>
|
||
<descrip>
|
||
<tag/80386 Programmer's Reference Manual/
|
||
Intel Corp.; ISBN 1-55512-022-9; 1986;
|
||
|
||
Part I. Applications Programming, data types, memory model,
|
||
instruction set. Part II. Systems Programming, architecture,
|
||
memory management, protection, multitasking, I/O, exceptions and
|
||
interrupts, initialization, coprocessing and multiprocessing. Part
|
||
III. Compatibility (with earlier x86 machines). Part
|
||
IV. Instruction Set.
|
||
|
||
<tag/80386 System Software Writer's Guide/
|
||
Intel Corp.; ISBN 1-55512-023-7; 1987.
|
||
|
||
This explains the 386 features for operating system writers. It
|
||
includes a chapter on Unix implementation. A lot of the 80386
|
||
architecture seems to have been designed with Multics in mind; the
|
||
features are not used by DOS or by Unix.
|
||
|
||
<tag/Programming the 80386/
|
||
Crawford, John H & Gelsinger, Patrick P.; Sybex; ISBN
|
||
0-89588-381-3; 774pp.; $26.95 (USA).
|
||
|
||
This is the book the Jolitzes used when they ported BSD to the 386
|
||
architecture.
|
||
|
||
<tag/Pentium Processor User's Manual: Volume 3, Architecture and Programming
|
||
Manual/
|
||
Intel Corp.; 1993; ISBN 1-55512-195-0;
|
||
|
||
Pretty much the Pentium version of the 80386 Programmer's manual
|
||
listed above.
|
||
</descrip>
|
||
</sect>
|
||
|
||
<sect> Books on PC-Class Hardware
|
||
<p>
|
||
Note: these books are four or five years old and possibly out of date.
|
||
I don't really grok hardware...
|
||
|
||
<descrip>
|
||
<tag/80386 Hardware Reference Manual/
|
||
Intel Corp.; 1986; ISBN 1-55512-024-5;
|
||
|
||
Pin connections, timing, waveforms, block diagrams, voltages,
|
||
all that kind of stuff.
|
||
|
||
<tag/The Indispensable PC Hardware Book/
|
||
Messmer, Hans-Peter; Addison-Wesley; 1993; ISBN 0-201-62424-9; 1000 pp.
|
||
|
||
JH: "Covers the more recent stuff like EIDE and PCI."
|
||
</descrip>
|
||
|
||
<sect>Administrivia
|
||
<p>
|
||
<sect1> Terms of Use
|
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<p>
|
||
This document is copyright 1999 by Eric S. Raymond. You may use,
|
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disseminate, and reproduce it freely, provided you:
|
||
|
||
<itemize>
|
||
<item>Do not omit or alter this copyright notice.
|
||
<item>Do not omit or alter or omit the version number and date.
|
||
<item>Do not omit or alter the document's pointer to the current WWW version.
|
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<item>Clearly mark any condensed, altered or versions as such.
|
||
</itemize>
|
||
|
||
These restrictions are intended to protect potential readers from
|
||
stale or mangled versions. If you think you have a good case for
|
||
an exception, ask me.
|
||
|
||
<sect1> History
|
||
<P>
|
||
This was originally a mini-HOWTO maintained by Jim Haynes.
|
||
I have changed the emphasis somewhat, trying to make it more
|
||
a standalone document and less reliant on the various USENET
|
||
bibliographic postings. The unattributed mini-reviews are mine
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rather than his.
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