Re: Linux Books
Hello George,
I don't know if you have learned about some sad info regarding Amazon, but
this links will quickly fill you in. Seems especially pertinant since debian
is often regarded as the truest/purest in free(dom) software.
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/amazon.html
http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/amazon_patent.html
http://www.oreilly.com/cgi-bin/amazon_patent.comments.pl
tatah
On Saturday 21 April 2001 10:34, George M. Butler wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for the great suggestions for Linux literature . I printed the
> responses I received and put together an order for Amazon. Here is my
> order:
>
> TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol 1, Stevens & Wright
> Understanding the Linux Kernel, Bovet & Cesati
> Linux Device Drivers, Rubini
> The Unix Programming Enviroment, Kernighan
> Beginning Linux Programming, Stone & Matthew
> The Mythical Man-Month, Brooks
> The C Programming Language Kernighan & Ritchie
> Programming Perl, Wall
> HTML: The Complete Reference, Powell.
>
> Again as part of the procedure I used the "Self" loop to cull titles
> that have "Idiots," "Dummies," or
> "Unleashed" as part of them.
>
> I read a chess list too and from time to time a person contributes their
> Desert Island Reading List, 10 chess books that a person would like to
> have when stranded on a desert island. When the urge hits a person on
> this list they could do the same for Debian.
>
> In case people think my employer is giving away free money ( not likely
> ), I state for the record that I acutally earned this money but the
> proceeds can only be spent for faculty enhancement and developement.
> I taught a so called Univ 100 course last fall in addition to usual
> courses that I teach. Univ 100 as you can probably guess is an
> orientation class for new freshmen. Again thanks for the help.
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