# Where to go from here?

This document gives an overview of useful books and sites.

## Useful Books

### General Linux

- "Linux in a Nutshell" by Ellen Siever, Jessica P. Hackman, Stephen Spainhour, Stephen Figgins, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 0596000251

- "Running Linux" by Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, Lar Kaufman, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 156592469X

- "Linux Unleashed" by Tim Parker, Bill Ball, David Pitts, Sams, ISBN 0672316889

- "When You Can't Find Your System Administrator" by Linda Mui, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 1565921046

- When you actually buy a distribution, it will contain a very decent user manual.

### Editors

- "Learning the Vi Editor" by Linda Lamb and Arnold Robbins, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 1565924266

- "GNU Emacs Manual" by Richard M.Stallman, iUniverse.Com Inc., ISBN 0595100333

- "Learning GNU Emacs" by Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt and Eric Raymond, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 1565921526

- "Perl Cookbook" by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 1565922433

### Shells

- "Unix Shell Programming" by Stephen G.Kochan and Patrick H.Wood, Sams Publishing, ISBN 067248448X

- "Learning the Bash Shell" by Cameron Newham and Bill Rosenblatt, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 1565923472

- "The Complete Linux Shell Programming Training Course" by Ellie Quigley and Scott Hawkins, Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 0130406767

- "Linux and Unix Shell Programming" by David Tansley, Addison Wesley Publishing Company, ISBN 0201674726

- "Unix C Shell Field Guide" by Gail and Paul Anderson, Prentice Hall, ISBN 013937468X

### X Window

- "Gnome User's Guide" by the Gnome Community, iUniverse.Com Inc., ISBN 0595132251

- "KDE Bible" by Dave Nash, Hungry Minds Inc., ISBN 0764546929

- "The Concise Guide to XFree86 for Linux" by Aron HSiao, Que, ISBN 0789721821

- "The New XFree86" by Bill Ball, Prima Publishing, ISBN 0761531521

- "Beginning GTK+ and Gnome" by Peter Wright, Wrox Press, ISBN 1861003811

- "KDE 2.0 Development" by David Sweet and Matthias Ettrich, Sams Publishing, ISBN 0672318911

- "GTK+/Gnome Application Development" by Havoc Pennington, New Riders Publishing, ISBN 0735700788

### Networking

- "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume I: The Protocols" by W. Richard Stevens, Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series, ISBN 0-201-63346-9

- "DNS and BIND" by Paul Albitz, Cricket Liu, Mike Loukides and Deborah Russell, O'Reilly & Associates, ISBN 0596001584

- "The Concise Guide to DNS and BIND" by Nicolai Langfeldt, Que, ISBN 0789722739

- "Implementing LDAP" by Mark Wilcox, Wrox Press, ISBN 1861002211

- "Understanding and deploying LDAP directory services" by Tim Howes and co., Sams, ISBN 0672323168

- "Sendmail" by Brian Costales and Eric Allman, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 1565922220

- "Removing the Spam : Email Processing and Filtering" by Geoff Mulligan, Addison Wesley Publishing Company, ISBN 0201379570

- "Managing IMAP" by Dianna & Kevin Mullet, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 059600012X

## Useful sites

### General information

- The Linux documentation project: all docs, manpages, HOWTOs, FAQs

- LinuxQuestions.org: forum, downloads, docs and much more

- Google for Linux: the specialized search engine

- Google Groups: an archive of all newsgroup postings, including the comp.os.linux hierarchy

- Slashdot: daily news

- http://www.oreilly.com: books on Linux System and Network administration, Perl, Java, ...

- POSIX: the standard

- Linux HQ: Maintains a complete database of source, patches and documentation for various versions of the Linux kernel.

### Architecture Specific References

- AlphaLinux: Linux on Alpha architecture (e.g. Digital Workstation)

- Linux-MIPS: Linux on MIPS (e.g. SGI Indy)

- Linux on the Road: Specific guidelines for installing and running Linux on laptops, PDAs, mobile phones and so on. Configuration files for various models.

- MkLinux: Linux on Apple

### Distributions

- The Fedora Project: RedHat-sponsored community effort OS.

- Mandriva

- Ubuntu

- Debian

- TurboLinux

- Slackware

- SuSE

- LinuxISO.org: CD images for all distributions.

- Knoppix: distribution that runs from a CD, you don't need to install anything for this one.

- DistroWatch.com: find a Linux that goes with your style.

- ...

### Software

- Freshmeat: new software, software archives

- OpenSSH: Secure SHell site

- OpenOffice: MS compatible Office Suite

- KDE: K Desktop site

- GNU: GNU and GNU software

- Gnome: The official Gnome site

- RPM Find: all RPM packages

- Samba: MS Windows file and print services

- Home of the OpenLDAP Project: OpenLDAP server/clients/utilities, FAQ and other documentation.

- Sendmail Homepage: A thorough technical discussion of Sendmail features, includes configuration examples.

- Netfilter: contains assorted information about iptables: HOWTO, FAQ, guides, ...

- Official GIMP website: All information about the GNU Image Manipulation Program.

- SourceForge.net: Open SOurce software development site.

- vIm homepage