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The Linux
Documentation Project (LDP) is working on developing good, reliable
documentation for the Linux operating system. The overall goal of the LDP
is to collaborate in taking care of all of the issues of Linux documentation,
ranging from online documentation (man pages, HTML, and so on) to printed
manuals covering topics such as installing, using, and running Linux. Here
is the Linux Documentation Project Manifesto
and Copyright License for LDP works.
Visit also the LDP
Homepage or one of many LDP
Mirrors around the world.
You can search the LDP Guides and HOWTOs with the Excite
Search Engine from the Hunt Library of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
or with the Woven Goods for Linux Search
Engine.
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Installation and Getting Started Version 3.2
by Matt Welsh, Phil Hughes, David Bandel, Boris Beletsky, Sean Dreilinger,
Robert Kiesling, Evan Liebovitch and Henry Pierce is an installation and
new-user guide to the Linux system. Linux is a free clone of the UNIXoperating
system developed for 80386 and 80486 machines. This book describes how
to obtain and install Linux on your system, as well as how to start using
it. Information on configuration of X-Windows, basic system administration,
and much more is included. It is available in HyperText
(online), HyperText
(gziped tar archive), DVI,
and PostScript.
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Network Administrator's Guide Version 1.0
by Olaf Kirch cover all of the diverse issues of networking under Linux,
from UUCP to serial connections to TCP/IP. Many Linux users won't have
access to such a network, so this information is in a separate manual.
It contains an intro to TCP/IP and UUCP (for those who have never used
such networks before, lots of background information), TCP/IP, UUCP, SLIP,
and DNS configuration, configuration of mail systems such as sendmail and
Smail, setting up NNTP and news, and NFS. It is available in HyperText
(online), HyperText
(gziped tar archive), DVI
(gziped tar archive), and PostScript
(gziped tar archive).
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System Administrator's Guide Version 0.6
by Lars Wirzenius describes the system administration aspects of using
Linux. It is intended for people who know next to nothing about system
administration (as in ``what is it?''), but who have already mastered at
least the basics of normal usage. This manual also doesn't tell you how
to install Linux; that is described in the Installation
and Getting Started document. It is available in HyperText
(online), HyperText
(gziped tar archive), DVI,
and PostScript.
See also the System
Administrator's Guide Home page.
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Kernel
Hacker's Guide Version 0.7 by Michael K. Johnson is a somewhat
incomplete tour of the Linux Kernel including information about writing
a device driver, adding a filesystem, memory management and system calls.
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User's Guide Version beta 1 by Larry Greenfield
targeted at novice Unix users. It is available in HyperText
(online), DVI, PDF,
and PostScript.
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Programmer's Guide Version 0.4 by B. Scott
Burkett, Sven Goldt, John D. Harper, Sven van der Meer and Matt Welsh describes
how to write C programs on linux using system calls, interprocess communications,
sound cards, character cell graphics, I/O ports as well as porting aspects.
It is available in HyperText (online), HyperText
(gziped tar archive), and PDF.
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The Linux Kernel, Version 0.8-2
by David A. Rusling. This book is for Linux enthusiasts who want to know
how the Linux kernel works. It is not an internals manual. Rather it describes
the principles and mechanisms that Linux uses; how and why the Linux kernel
works the way that it does. Linux is a moving target; this book is based
upon the current, stable, 2.0.33 sources as those are what most individuals
and companies are now using. It is available in HyperText
(online), DVI,
and PostScript.
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Linux
PCMCIA Programmer's Guide by David Hinds. This document describes
how to write kernel device drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface.
It also describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
Card Services. It is available in HyperText
(online), PlainText,
DVI,
and PostScript.
Additionally browse the LDP Directory at ftp.fokus.gmd.de
or sunsite.unc.edu. |