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The Linux Reading List HOWTO
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Eric Steven Raymond
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[http://www.catb.org/~esr/] Thyrsus Enterprises
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<esr@thyrsus.com>
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Copyright © 2000 Eric S. Raymond
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Revision History
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Revision 3.0 2004-02-04 Revised by: esr
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Major update. Removed out-of-date books, added a new one.
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Revision 2.1 2003-10-28 Revised by: esr
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Added TAOUP.
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Revision 2.0 2003-07-31 Revised by: esr
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Major revision, cleaned out obsolete stuff.
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Revision 1.21 2003-02-22 Revised by: esr
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LDP site has moved.
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Revision 1.20 2001-06-14 Revised by: esr
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Removed "Practical Unix Security"; it's five years old and the material is
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now covered better by other books.
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Revision 1.19 2001-06-14 Revised by: esr
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Added Ross Anderson's "Security Engineering". Corrected ISBNs.
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This document lists the books I think are most valuable to a person trying
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to learn Unix (especially Linux) top to bottom.
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Copyright
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under
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the terms of the Open Publication License, version 2.0.
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Table of Contents
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1. Introduction
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1.1. Purpose of this document
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1.2. New versions of this document
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1.3. Feedback and Corrections
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1.4. Related Resources
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1.5. Conventions Used In This Document
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Basic Linux and Unix bibliography
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A. Administrivia
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A.1. Terms of Use
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A.2. History
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1. Introduction
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1.1. Purpose of this document
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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 it.
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1.2. New versions of this document
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New versions of the Linux Reading List HOWTO will be periodically posted to
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[news:comp.os.linux.answers] comp.os.linux.answers. They will also be
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uploaded to 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 Web via the
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URL [http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Reading-List-HOWTO.html] http://
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sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Reading-List-HOWTO.html.
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1.3. Feedback and Corrections
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If you have questions or comments about this document (or just want to
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suggest a book that you think should be on it), please feel free to mail Eric
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S. Raymond, at <esr@thyrsus.com>. I welcome any suggestions or criticisms.
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1.4. Related Resources
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For on-line HOWTOs, magazines, and other non-book material, see the Linux
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Documentation Project home page.
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Some years ago I wrote a less Linux-focused Unix bibliography that may still
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be of some interest and retains a certain amusement value. You can find the
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Loginataka [http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/loginataka.html] here.
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SAGE, the System Administrator's Guild, maintains an excellent [http://
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www.usenix.org/sage/sysadmins/books/booklist.html] list of relevant books.
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1.5. Conventions Used In This Document
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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 a cover
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shot, blurbs, and ordering information. Books that don't have these lack them
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because the publisher is using frames and the catalog pages can't be
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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 tried
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to list the most useful books first insofar as I am familiar with them. It's
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just an embarrassing coincidence that this lists one of my books first,
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honest! (Suggestions for a better organization cheerfully accepted.)
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Basic Linux and Unix bibliography
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Books on Culture, History, and Pragmatics
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The New Hacker's Dictionary, Third Edition, Edited by Eric S. Raymond, 1996,
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ISBN 0-262-68092-0, MIT Press, 547pp..
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Um, er. A guide to Internet culture. Lots of people like it. HTML at the
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Jargon File Resource Page.
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[http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262680920] Order here.
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A Quarter Century of Unix, Edited by Peter H. Salus, 1994, ISBN
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0-201-54777-5, Addison-Wesley, 255pp..
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Linux is part of the Unix tradition. This book is an oral history of Unix --
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how it originated, how it evolved, how it spread -- by the people who were
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there.
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[http://www.awprofessional.com/catalog/product.asp?product_id=
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{CE8A5F8A-8E49-4B84-89D4-F518971D8130}] Order here.
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The Mythical Man Month, Anniversary Edition, Frederic P. Brooks, 1995, ISBN
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0-201-83595-9, Addison-Wesley.
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The one book on software engineering everyone should read.
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Alan Cox: "This I'd recommend not for its technical value but for its
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application of common sense and reality to computing projects." JH: "Ah, yes.
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What if Linus had been given 200 programmers and had been told to produce
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Linux in 3 months!"
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[http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,4096,0201835959,00.html]
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Order here.
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Second Edition, Edited by Eric S. Raymond,
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1999, ISBN 0-596-00131-2, O'Reilly & Associates, 240pp..
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How and why the Linux development model works. HTML [http://www.catb.org/~esr
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/writings/cathedral-bazaar] here.
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Order [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cathbaz/] here..
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Linux basics
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Linux System Administrator's Guide, Edited by Lars Wirzenius, 1997, Linux
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Documentation Project.
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Available on the LDP home page, or directly at [http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/]
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http://www.tldp.org//sag/.
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An excellent first book on how to maintain and administer a Linux system.
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition, Ellen Siever, Stephen Figgins, Aaron
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Weber, 2003, ISBN 0-596-00482-6, O'Reilly & Associates.
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According to O'Reilly, "The Desktop Reference for Linux". For Linux users
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this obsoletes their "Unix In a Nutshell" which was SVr4/Solaris-oriented.
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[http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxnut3/] Order here.
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Running Linux, Fourth Edition, Matt Welsh, Matthias Dallheimer, Terry Dawson,
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Lar Kaufman, 2002, 0-596-00272-6, O'Reilly & Associates.
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Everything you need in order to understand, install, and use the Linux
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operating system. Excellent beginner's book.
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[http://www.ora.com/catalog/runux3/] Order here.
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A Practical Guide to Linux, Mark G. Sobell, 1998, ISBN 0-201-89549-8,
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Addison-Wesley, 1072pp..
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Just what the title says -- practical tutorials in basic Unix, shells,
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editors, mail programs, networking, Web tools, and utilities. Covers some
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system administration fundamentals.
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Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition, Æleen Frisch, 2002, ISBN
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0-596-00343-9, O'Reilly & Associates.
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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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[http://www.ora.com/catalog/esa2/noframes.html] Order here.
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System Security
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Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems,
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Ross Anderson, 2001, 0-471-38922-6, Wiley.
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The best book I've ever seen on technological security measures and general
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computer security. The section on "How to Steal a Painting" and physical
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alarm systems is worth the price of admission by itself.
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Real World Linux Security: Intrusion Prevention, Detection, and Recovery, 2nd
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edition, Bob Toxen, 2003, ISBN 0-13-046456-2, Prentice-Hall.
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This is excellent work, the standard by which future Linux security books
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will be judged. I wrote a foreword for it. Combines step-by-step practical
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instructions on hardining a Linux system with good theory on attack paths,
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rings of protection, and security analysis. Describes many counters for
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specific exploits.
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Books on Shell, Script, and Web Programming
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Programming Perl, Third Edition, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant
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, 2000, ISBN 0-596-00027-8, O'Reilly & Associates, 1104pp..
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Shell (as a programming language for more than trivial scripting) is dead.
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Perl rules in its place (though it is now being strongly challenged by
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Python). This is the third edition of the definitive Perl book.
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[http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/] Order here.
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Emmanuel Pierre keeps a short list of Perl books.
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Programming Python, Second Edition, Mark Lutz, 2001, ISBN 0-596-00085-5,
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O'Reilly & Associates.
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The next step beyond Perl. Python is beautifully designed, has better
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integration with C, and scales up more gracefully to large projects.
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[http://www.ora.com/catalog/python/] Order here.
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HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition, Chuck Musciano and Bill
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Kennedy, 2002, ISBN 0-596-00382-X, O'Reilly & Associates, 680pp..
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The best HTML tutorial/reference I have ever seen, and the only HTML book you
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need unless you also want to do CGI. I don't know of any other book on HTML
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that comes within miles of this one for comprehensiveness, depth, and quality
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of organization.
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[http://www.ora.com/catalog/html5/] Order here.
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The Unix Programming Environment, Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, 1984, ISBN
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0-13-937681-X, Prentice-Hall.
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A true classic -- possibly the best single-book exposition of the Unix
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philosophy. Useful for learning shell programming.
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Tex and LaTeX
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The LaTeX Companion, Michael Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, and Alexander
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Samarin, 1994, ISBN 0-201-54199-8, Addison-Wesley, 530pp..
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`If you are one of those users who would like to know how LaTeX can be
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extended to create the nicest documents possible without becoming a (La)TeX
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guru, then this book is for you' --- from the Preface. Bruce Thompson adds:
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"A very nice book providing a lot of information about the new extensions to
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LaTeX, provides a large number of examples showing precisely how your
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document's layout can be manipulated"
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[http://www.awprofessional.com/catalog/product.asp?product_id=
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{2B50D478-D4C6-41F2-BD2F-F65E8A99E1C4}] Order here.
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LaTeX: A Document Preparation System, Leslie Lamport, 1994, ISBN
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0-201-52983-1, Addison-Wesley, 256pp..
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Bruce Thompson: "The ultimate reference on LaTeX 2.09 by its author. A new
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edition covering LaTeX2e (the version included in the current TeX/LaTeX
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distribution) is in preparation. LaTeX 2.09 is fully supported by LaTeX2e. A
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must for anyone wanting to use LaTeX. Provides a gentle introduction to
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document preparation and the various tools that LaTeX provides for producing
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professional quality documents. Lots of examples."
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[http://www.awprofessional.com/catalog/product.asp?product_id=
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{3DC3049A-068B-4184-B406-C13CBFC93CEB}] Order here.
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The TeXbook, Volume A of Computers and Typesetting, Donald Knuth, 1986, ISBN
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0-201-13448-9, Addison-Wesley, 496pp..
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Bruce Thompson: "The definitive user's guide and complete reference manual
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for TeX. Probably not needed for casual LaTeX use, but a fascinating book
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nonetheless." I'll strengthen that by adding that this book is not for the
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faint of heart.
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[http://www.awl.com/cp/TeXbook.html] Order here.
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The METAFONT Book, Volume C of Computers and Typesetting, Donald Knuth, 1986,
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ISBN 0-201-13444-6, Addison-Wesley, 386pp..
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Bruce Thompson: "The definitive user's guide and reference manual for
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METAFONT, the companion program to TeX for designing fonts. An excellent work
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if you're planning to design your own fonts for use in TeX and LaTeX.
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METAFONT is included with the normal TeX/LaTeX distribution." This book is
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definitely not for the faint of heart.
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[http://www.awprofessional.com/catalog/product.asp?product_id=
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{27AADE0A-B3C5-4F6E-B79F-5A53027EA008}] Order here.
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Good Programming Style
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The Practice of Programming, Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, 1999, ISBN
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0-201-61586-X, Addison-Wesley.
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An excellent treatise on writing high-quality programs, surely destined to
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become a classic of the field.
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[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/] Order here.
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Programming Pearls, (Second Edition), Jon Bentley, 2000, ISBN 0-201-65788-0,
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Addison-Wesley.
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These are selected essays from Bentley's column in the Communications of the
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ACM. He discusses a wide variety of issues in program improvement, often
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focusing on program efficiency.
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[http://www.awprofessional.com/catalog/product.asp?product_id=
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{8D9EB790-15B3-41C9-AE3D-8149347A52AA}] Order here.
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The Art of Unix Programming, Edited by Eric S. Raymond, 2003, ISBN
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0-131-42901-9, Addison-Wesley, 512pp..
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The book on how to think like a Unix expert. Browseable HTML and ordering
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info live [http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/] here.
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Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective, Edited by Diomedis Spinellis,
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2003, Addison-Wesley.
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A good book on an often-neglected skill. Order [http://www.awprofessional.com
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/catalog/product.asp?product_id={DE5EA6BB-1743-406B-A680-D1B335BA7EA2}&
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session_id={D106B2CE-36F1-4EA0-8651-74B623E0CECD}] here.
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Writing Efficient Programs, Jon Bentley, 1982, ISBN 0-13-970251-2 or
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0-13-970244-X, Prentice-Hall.
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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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C and C++
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The C Programming Language, (Second Edition), Brian Kernighan and Dennis
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Ritchie, 1988, ISBN 0-13-110362-8, Addison-Wesley, 272pp..
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The improved second edition, covering ANSI C, of the original classic C book
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coauthored by C's designer, "K&R". Still the best!
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Who's Afraid of C++?, Steve Heller, 1996, ISBN 0-12-339097-4, Academic Press,
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508pp..
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The best introductory book on C++ I have seen. Now available [http://
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www.steveheller.com/whos] on the Web.
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C System Call Interface
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POSIX Programmer's Guide: Writing Portable Unix Programs, Donald Lewine,
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1992, ISBN 0-937175-73-0, O'Reilly & Associates, 607pp..
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Linux hews very close to the letter of the POSIX standard (non-conformance is
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considered a bug and swiftly fixed). This excellent reference for POSIX is
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thus also an excellent reference for the Linux kernel API.
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[http://www.ora.com/catalog/posix/] Order here.
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Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, W. Richard Stevens, 1993, ISBN
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0-201-56317-7, Addison-Wesley.
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A book on general Unix programming that is every bit as good as Stevens's
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classic on network programming.
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Linux Application Development, Michael K. Johnson and Erik W. Troan, 1998,
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ISBN 0-201-308215, Addison-Wesley.
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The best single reference to the Linux API. Covers the features that aren't
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generic Unix or Posix.
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Books on Networking
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Unix Network Programming, volume 1 -- Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI, W.
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Richard Stevens, 1998, ISBN 0-13-490012-X, Prentice-Hall.
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Everything you might want to know about the subject. Generally regarded as
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definitive on the basics.
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Unix Network Programming, volume 2 -- Interprocess Communication, Richard
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Stevens, 1998, ISBN 0-13-081081-9, Prentice-Hall.
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Ditto...
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Linux Network Administrator's Guide, Olaf Kirch, 1995, ISBN 1-56592-087-2,
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O'Reilly & Associates.
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Available on the LDP home page, or directly at [http://www.tldp.org/nag/
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nag.html] http://www.tldp.org/nag.html.
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An excellent first book on how to maintain and administer a networked Linux
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system.
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TCP/IP Network Administration, Craig Hunt, 1992, ISBN 0-937175-82-X, O'Reilly
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& Associates, 472pp..
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Less Linux-specific than the Kirch book. Features deeper coverage of the TCP/
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IP core, including routing and BGP.
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[http://www.ora.com/catalog/tcp2/noframes.html] Order here.
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DNS and BIND, Second Edition, Paul Albiz and Cricket Liu, 1998, ISBN
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1-56592-512-2, 502pp., O'Reilly & Associates.
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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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[http://www.ora.com/catalog/dns2/noframes.html] Order here.
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Sendmail, Third Edition, Bryan Costales and Eric Allman, 2002, ISBN
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1-56592-839-3, 1232pp., O'Reilly & Associates.
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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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[http://www.ora.com/catalog/sendmail2/noframes.html] Order here.
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Ancestors of Linux
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The Design of the Unix Operating System, Maurice J. Bach, 1996, ISBN
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0-13-201799-7, 470pp., Prentice-Hall.
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The book that got Linus started.
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[http://www.prenhall.com/books/ptr_0132017997.html] Order here.
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Operating Systems, Design and Implementation, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1987, ISBN
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0-13-638677-6, 940pp., Prentice-Hall.
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Alan Cox likes this book. Tanenbaum designed Minix, which is the system Linus
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bootstrapped Linux up from.
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[http://www.prenhall.com/books/esm_0136386776.html] Order here.
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The Linux kernel
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The Linux Kernel book, Rémy Card, Èric Dumas, and Frank Mével, 1998, ISBN
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0-471-98141-9, John Wiley & Sons.
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(Translated from the French language edition of "Programmation Linux 2.0";
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same authors; 1997; Éditions Eyrolles; Paris, France.)
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A very interesting and informative examination of the operation of the kernel
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that fills in the gap between the POSIX interface and "The Design of the Unix
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Operating System" and the Linux source code. A good understanding of the
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design and operation of a Unix OS is a pre-requisite, but this book is an
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excellent help to going beyond that general understanding into actual work.
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The primary author is one of the core developers for the ext2 filesystem, and
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the Linux Kernel book shows a firm grasp of the matter and clear explanations
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and structure. It's surprisingly readable for something working at such a low
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level. The book does seem to have suffered a little in the translation to
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English -- there are a few typos and grammatical mistakes, but it's quite
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readable. (The code example files are charmingly still named in French.)
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The book is current to Linux 2.0.35 and foreshadows 2.1 and 2.2. Network
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protocol implementations are not covered.
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LINUX Kernel Programming, (Third Edition), Michael Beck, Harold Bohme, Mirko
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Dziadka, Robert Magnus, Claus Schroter, and Dirk Verworner, 2002, ISBN
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0-201-719754, Addison-Wesley, 480pp..
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|
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A guide to Linux kernel programming; covers 2.4. Covers the architecture of
|
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the Linux core and network layer as well as driver construction.
|
||
|
||
[http://www.awprofessional.com/catalog/product.asp?product_id=
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||
{8D651984-15AF-4C2D-B17C-C07A7758DF23}] Order here.
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||
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Relatives of Linux
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The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Unix Operating System, Marshall
|
||
Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman, 1996,
|
||
ISBN 0-201-54979-4, Addison-Wesley.
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||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
[http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,4096,0201549794,00.html]
|
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Order here.
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||
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|
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|
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Books on Intel and PC hacking
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||
|
||
80386 Programmer's Reference Manual, Intel Corporation, 1986, ISBN
|
||
1-55512-022-9.
|
||
|
||
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
|
||
|
||
|
||
80386 System Software Writer's Guide, Intel Corporation, 1987, ISBN
|
||
1-55512-023-7.
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Programming the 80386, John H. Crawford and Patrick P. Gelsinger, 1987, ISBN
|
||
0-89588-381-3, 774pp..
|
||
|
||
This is the book the Jolitzes used when they ported BSD to the 386
|
||
architecture.
|
||
|
||
|
||
80386 Hardware Reference Manual, Intel Corporation, 1986, ISBN 1-55512-024-5.
|
||
|
||
Pin connections, timing, waveforms, block diagrams, voltages, all that kind
|
||
of stuff.
|
||
|
||
|
||
The Indispensable PC Hardware Book, Hans-Peter Messmer, 1993, ISBN
|
||
0-201-62424-9, 1000pp., Addison-Wesley.
|
||
|
||
JH: "Covers the more recent stuff like EIDE and PCI."
|
||
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|
||
|
||
A. Administrivia
|
||
|
||
A.1. Terms of Use
|
||
|
||
This document is copyright 1999 by Eric S. Raymond. You may use, disseminate,
|
||
and reproduce it freely, provided you:
|
||
|
||
* Do not omit or alter this copyright notice.
|
||
|
||
* Do not omit or alter or omit the version number and date.
|
||
|
||
* Do not omit or alter the document's pointer to the current WWW version.
|
||
|
||
* Clearly mark any condensed, altered or versions as such.
|
||
|
||
|
||
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.
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|
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|
||
A.2. History
|
||
|
||
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 rather than his.
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