E-Book: Red Hat Linux Networking and System Administration (Author: Terry Collings & Kurt Wall)

Red Hat Linux is the most popular distribution of Linux currently in use. Red HatLinux has shown itself to be a robust, reliable operating system that can run on avariety of hardware, from personal computers to large mainframes. Linux in general,and Red Hat Linux in particular, is a very powerful operating system that can be usedat the enterprise level as a full-fledged server, as well as at the workstation level fortypical user applications. For those of us dissatisfied with the reliability of other com-mercially available operating systems, Red Hat Linux is a pleasant alternative.

E-Book: Linux From Scratch (version 6.5) by Gerard Beekmans

My journey to learn and better understand Linux began over a decade ago, back in 1998. I had just installed my firstLinux distribution and had quickly become intrigued with the whole concept and philosophy behind Linux.

There are always many ways to accomplish a single task. The same can be said about Linux distributions. A greatmany have existed over the years. Some still exist, some have morphed into something else, yet others have beenrelegated to our memories. They all do things differently to suit the needs of their target audience. Because so manydifferent ways to accomplish the same end goal exist, I began to realize I no longer had to be limited by any oneimplementation. Prior to discovering Linux, we simply put up with issues in other Operating Systems as you had nochoice. It was what it was, whether you liked it or not. With Linux, the concept of choice began to emerge. If youdidn't like something, you were free, even encouraged, to change it.

Ebook: The Developer Shortcut Guide to SUSE Linux

Application development has a long and interesting history. From the switchboard plugs that programmed the first computers to today’s Web applications, a lot has happened. Academic discussions ebb and flow around topics such as software design, architecture, and methodologies in a quest to determine whether programming is an engineering discipline or an art or neither.

Ebook: Linux all-in-one For Dummies 4th Edition

Linux All-in-One For Dummies gives you eight quick-reference guides in a single book. Taken together, these eight minibooks provide detailed information on installing, configuring, and using Linux.

What you’ll like most about this book is that you don’t have to sequentially read each chapter by chapter or even each section in a chapter. You can pretty much turn to the topic you want and quickly get the answer to your pressing questions about Linux, be it about using the OpenOffice.org word processor or setting up the Apache Web server.