Linux Security Howto:
This book is designed to provide an overview of the
steps needed to implement a secure environment on a
Linux system and outlines some of the threats and how
these weaknesses are exploited by some.
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Linux Firewall Configuration,
Packet Filtering & netfilter/iptables:
This book was written as a guide through the setup
process and to explain the iptables package. It includes
information about the iptables and Netfilter functions
in the new Linux 2.4.x kernels.
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Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition
This is the web site for the Third Edition of Linux
Device Drivers, by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini,
and Greg Kroah-Hartman. For the moment, only the finished
PDF files are available; we do intend to make an HTML
version and the DocBook source available as well. This
book is available under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. That means that
you are free to download and redistribute it. The development
of the book was made possible, however, by those who
purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere.
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GNU Bash Reference Manual
Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter,
for the GNU operating system. The name is an acronym
for the 'Bourne-Again SHell', a pun on Stephen Bourne,
the author of the direct ancestor of the current Unix
shell /bin/sh, which appeared in the Seventh Edition
Bell Labs Research version of Unix.
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Knowing Knoppix
a book for Knoppix beginners in PDF format.
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Linux Client Migration Cookbook
A Practical Planning and Implementation Guide for Migrating
to Desktop Linux
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Vi iMproved (VIM)
Vim is one of the most powerful text editors around.
It is also extremely efficient, enabling the user to
edit files with a minimum of key strokes. This power
and functionality comes at a cost, however. When getting
started, users face a steep learning curve.
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Linux: Rute User's Tutorial and
Exposition
Most IT books have to be rushed to keep up to date
with the rapidly evolving trends in software. As technical
books, they are usually of a low quality. Rute, on the
other hand, was carefully mastered over three years
to be a complete reference of Unix -- Unix itself has
not changed fundamentally in many decades. The GNU project
also tends toward enduring standards that evolve very
slowly. On the other hand, there is much evolving with
respect to RedHat, Debian, and Mandrake, so these peculiarities
where written into the book as those distributions evolved.
I believe there is here the best combination of reference
and practical, current information. On another level,
my working environment necessitated field experience
that was ideal for a book like this. From rebuilding
old 486 mail servers (while sitting on the floor in
dusty filing rooms); to the creation of custom desktops
and thin clients for word processing environments; to
nation-wide WAN networks. My company's daring escapades
tested human ingenuity and Linux dexterity in every
conceivable environment. So quite simply, there is a
lot more in Rute than you will find anywhere else.
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The Book of Webmin
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love UNIX
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GNU Emacs manual
Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting
real-time display editor. This Info file describes how
to edit with Emacs and some of how to customize it.
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Writing GNOME Applications
Programming with GNOME is no simple task for the uninitiated.
GNOME is one of the larger desktop programming suites
you'll find. It has taken two years and hundreds of
programmers to become what it is now. GNOME covers a
lot of ground and makes use of many, many supporting
libraries. Despite its nec- essary complexity, however,
GNOME is very well laid out. It makes sense when you
see it as a whole. On a line-by-line basis the code
is not arcane or obfuscated. It's actually well written
and quite nicely formatted. There's just so much of
it! This book will attempt to guide you through all
the fundamental parts of GNOME, to explain how things
work and why. Rather than taking you through an exhaustive
listing of function calls and coding semantics, we'll
concentrate on what makes GNOME tick. We'll certainly
go into detail about the important function calls and
how to use them, but you'll still want to keep the official
GNOME and GTK+ documentation on hand. The official documents
are free, just like the rest of GNOME, and should even
be bundled with your GNOME distribution. When you finish
with this book, you should have a very clear, intuitive
understanding of the GNOME 1.2 framework. You'll be
able to write a com- plete GNOME application, from front
to back. If you run into problems, you'll know how to
diagnose the problem and where to look for the answers.
It's impossible to know absolutely everything, but this
book should at least iden- tify everything you need
to know.
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KDE 2.0 Development
The K Desktop Environment (KDE) project is a worldwide
collaboration of hundreds of software engineers and
hobbyists who are working to create a free, modern desktop
interface with a consistent graphical user interface
(GUI) style across applications. The desktop is network
transparent, meaning that remote and local files can
all be viewed, edited, and managed in the same way;
it has online hypertext help and features an integrated,
full-featured Web browser. The purpose of this book
is to teach you how to take advantage of all that the
KDE libraries have to offer when you write your own
applications.
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GTK+/Gnome Application Development
GNOME application programming manual, available in
book form and online.
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GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool
free book on popular GNU tools
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Advanced Linux Programming
If you are a developer for the GNU/Linux system, this
book will help you to develop GNU/Linux software that
works the way users expect it to, write more sophisticated
programs with features such as multiprocessing, multi-threading,
interprocess communication, and interaction with hardware
devices, improve your programs by making them run faster,
more reliably, and more securely, understand the preculiarities
of a GNU/Linux system, including its limitations, special
capabilities, and conventions.
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Secure Programming for Linux and
Unix -
This book provides a set of design and implementation
guidelines for writing secure programs for Linux and
Unix systems. Such programs include application programs
used as viewers of remote data, web applications (including
CGI scripts), network servers, and setuid/setgid programs.
Specific guidelines for C, C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Python,
Tcl, and Ada95 are included.
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The Art of Unix Programming
There is a vast difference between knowledge and expertise.
Knowledge lets you deduce the right thing to do; expertise
makes the right thing a reflex, hardly requiring conscious
thought at all. This book has a lot of knowledge in
it, but it is mainly about expertise. It is going to
try to teach you the things about Unix development that
Unix experts know, but aren't aware that they know.
It is therefore less about technicalia and more about
shared culture than most Unix books — both explicit
and implicit culture, both conscious and unconscious
traditions. It is not a ‘how-to’ book, it
is a ‘why-to’ book. The why-to has great
practical importance, because far too much software
is poorly designed. Much of it suffers from bloat, is
exceedingly hard to maintain, and is too difficult to
port to new platforms or extend in ways the original
programmers didn't anticipate. These problems are symptoms
of bad design. We hope that readers of this book will
learn something of what Unix has to teach about good
design.
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The Linux Development Platform
The Linux Development Platform shows how to choose
the best open source and GNU development tools for your
specific needs, and integrate them into a complete development
environment that maximizes your effectiveness in any
project. It covers editors, compilers, assemblers, debuggers,
version control, utilities, LSB, Java, cross-platform
solutions, and the entire Linux software development
process.
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Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition
As the popularity of the Linux system continues to
grow, the interest in writing Linux device drivers steadily
increases. Most of Linux is independent of the hardware
it runs on, and most users can be (happily) unaware
of hardware issues. But, for each piece of hardware
supported by Linux, somebody somewhere has written a
driver to make it work with the system. Without device
drivers, there is no functioning system. Device drivers
take on a special role in the Linux kernel. They are
distinct "black boxes" that make a particular
piece of hardware respond to a well-defined internal
programming interface; they hide completely the details
of how the device works. User activities are performed
by means of a set of standardized calls that are independent
of the specific driver; mapping those calls to device-specific
operations that act on real hardware is then the role
of the device driver. This programming interface is
such that drivers can be built separately from the rest
of the kernel, and "plugged in" at runtime
when needed. This modularity makes Linux drivers easy
to write, to the point that there are now hundreds of
them available.
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