Linux Readings
Books
📚 The Hacker Ethic
and the spirit of the Information Age
Pekka Himanen, 2000
At the center of our technological age are people who call themselves hackers. They define themselves as people who engage in passionate programming and believe that it is a duty for them to share information and develop free software... This book is an invitation to visit the fundamental issues about life in the information society, to take a journey full of surprises that will help us to direct our lives to new and exciting perspectives.
📚 The Linux Command Line
A Complete Introduction
William E. Shotts, 2011
"It's been said that "graphical user interfaces make easy tasks easy, while command-line interfaces make difficult tasks possible." The Linux Command Line shows readers how to control their computers and accomplish these difficult tasks using Bash, the Linux shell. Designed for command-line users of all levels, the book takes readers from the first keystrokes to the process of writing powerful programs in the command line's native language.
📚 Two Bits
The Cultural Significance of Free Software
Christopher Kelty, 2008
In Two Bits, Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software, but also music, film, science, and education.
Free Software is a set of practices devoted to the collaborative creation of software source code that is made openly and freely available through an unconventional use of copyright law. Kelty shows how these specific practices have reoriented the relations of power around the creation, dissemination, and authorization of all kinds of knowledge after the arrival of the Internet.
📚 How Linux Works, 2nd Edition
What Every Superuser Should Know
Brian Ward, 2004
Unlike some operating systems, Linux doesn’t try to hide the important bits from you—it gives you full control of your computer. But to truly master Linux, you need to understand its internals, like how the system boots, how networking works, and what the kernel actually does.
...author Brian Ward makes the concepts behind Linux internals accessible to anyone curious about the inner workings of the operating system. Inside, you’ll find the kind of knowledge that normally comes from years of experience doing things the hard way.
📚 The Cathedral & the Bazaar
Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
Eric S. Raymond, 1999
Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6 percent will install it in the next two years. This revolutionary model for collaborative software development is being embraced and studied by many of the biggest players in the high-tech industry...
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🌐 Linux Documentation Project (LDP)
The Linux Documentation Project (LDP) is a dormant all-volunteer project that maintains a large collection of GNU and Linux-related documentation and publishes the collection online. It began as a way for hackers to share their documentation with each other and with their users, and for users to share documentation with each other.
Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that provides you with step-by-step instructions for building your own customized Linux system entirely from source.
Terminal Trove curates and showcases all things in the terminal such as command line interface tools (CLI), text mode interface tools (TUI), developer tools and more no matter what platform or medium.
Learn the ways of Linux-fu.