Book Reviews
- Sara Baase: A Gift of Fire
Social, legal, and ethical issues for computers and the Internet
- Edward C. Bailey: Maximum RPM
Taking the Red Hat Package Manager to the Limit
- Adam Barr: Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters
What I Learned in Ten Years as a Microsoft Programmer
- Daniel J. Barrett, Richard E. Silverman: SSH, The Secure Shell
The Definitive Guide
- Daniel J. Barrett: MediaWiki
Wikipedia and Beyond
- David M. Beazley: Python Essential Reference
- useful printed documentation
- Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest: Google Hacks
100 Industrial Strength Tips and Tools
- Martin Campbell-Kelly: From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog
A History of the Software Industry
- Bryan Costales, Eric Allman: Sendmail
- the bat book: the world's most popular MTA explained
- Kyle D. Dent: Postfix: The Definitive Guide
- a fast, secure Mail Transfer Agent
- Chris DiBona, et al.: Open Sources
Voices from the Open Source Revolution
- Dale Dougherty, et al.: The Mosaic Handbook
- before Internet Explorer, before Netscape, there was...
- Robert Eckstein: XML Pocket Reference
- Adam Freeman, Darrel Ince: Active Java*
Object-Oriented Programming for the World Wide Web
- Simson Garfinkel: PGP: Pretty Good Privacy
- encryption for everyone
- Michel Goosens, et al.: The LaTeX Companion
- Philip Greenspun: Database Backed Web Sites*
The Thinking Person's Guide to Web Publishing
- Joseph N. Hall: Effective Perl Programming
Writing Better Programs With Perl
- Ralf Hildebrandt, Patrick Koetter: The Book of Postfix
State-of-the-Art Message Transport
- David Icove, et al.: Computer Crime
A Crimefighter's Handbook
- Charlie Kaufman, et al.: Network Security
PRIVATE Communication in a PUBLIC World
- Linda Lamb: Learning the vi Editor
- Leslie Lamport: LaTeX
A Document Preparation System
- Jon Lasser: Think Unix*
- an introduction to Unix for smart people
- Rasmus Lerdorf: PHP Pocket Reference
- Mark Lutz: Programming Python*
- Alex Martelli: Python in a Nutshell
A Desktop Quick Reference
- Brian McConnell: Beyond Contact
A Guide to SETI and Communicating With Alien Worlds
- David Mertz: Text Processing in Python*
- a good mix of basic ideas and concrete examples
- Linda Mui, Valerie Quercia: X User Tools
- Peter G. Neumann: Computer-Related Risks
- if anything can go wrong, it probably will
- Cameron Newham, Bill Rosenblatt: Learning the bash Shell
- W. Curtis Preston: Backup and Recovery
Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems
- Tobias Ratschiller, Till Gerken: Web Application Development with PHP 4.0
- Eric S. Raymond: The Art of UNIX Programming*
- thirty years of development wisdom
- Eric S. Raymond: The Cathedral and the Bazaar*
Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
- Sandy Ressler: The Art of Electronic Publishing
The Internet and Beyond
- Peter H. Salus: A Quarter Century of Unix
- from Space Travel to Plan 9 and Linux
- Bruce Schneier: Secrets and Lies*
Digital Security in a Networked World
- Ellen Siever: Linux in a Nutshell
- Lincoln D. Stein: How to Set Up and Maintain a Web Site*
- now dated, but it was a great book
- Joan Stigliani: The Computer User's Survival Guide
- preventing and coping with RSI, eyestrain, stress, and radiation
- Stephen L. Talbott: The Future Does Not Compute
- emotionally stirring but intellectually vacuous
- George Varghese: Network Algorithmics
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices
- Larry Wall, Randal L. Schwartz: Programming Perl
- between the shell and the deep blue C
- Matt Welsh, Lar Kaufman: Running Linux
- Sam Williams: Free as in Freedom
Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
- Linux Journal
The Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community
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