Basic Linux and Unix bibliography

Books on Culture, History, and Pragmatics

The New Hacker's Dictionary. Third Edition. Eric S. Raymond. Copyright © 1996. ISBN 0-262-68092-0. MIT Press. 547pp..

A Quarter Century of Unix. Peter H. Salus. Copyright © 1994. ISBN 0-201-54777-5. Addison-Wesley. 255pp..

The Mythical Man Month. Anniversary Edition. Frederic P. Brooks. Copyright © 1995. ISBN 0-201-83595-9. Addison-Wesley.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Second Edition. Eric S. Raymond. Copyright © 1999. ISBN 0-596-00131-2. O'Reilly & Associates. 240pp..

Linux basics

Linux System Administrator's Guide. Lars Wirzenius. Copyright © 1997. Linux Documentation Project.

Linux in a Nutshell. Fourth Edition. Ellen Siever. Stephen Figgins. Aaron Weber. Copyright © 2003. ISBN 0-596-00482-6. O'Reilly & Associates.

Running Linux. Fourth Edition. Matt Welsh. Matthias Dallheimer. Terry Dawson. Lar Kaufman. Copyright © 2002. 0-596-00272-6. O'Reilly & Associates.

A Practical Guide to Linux. Mark G. Sobell. Copyright © 1998. ISBN 0-201-89549-8. Addison-Wesley. 1072pp..

Essential System Administration. 3rd Edition. Æleen Frisch. Copyright © 2002. ISBN 0-596-00343-9. O'Reilly & Associates.

System Security

Security Engineering. A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems. Ross Anderson. Copyright © 2001. 0-471-38922-6. Wiley.

Real World Linux Security. Intrusion Prevention, Detection, and Recovery. 2nd edition. Bob Toxen. Copyright © 2003. ISBN 0-13-046456-2. Prentice-Hall.

Books on Shell, Script, and Web Programming

Programming Perl. Third Edition. Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant. Copyright © 2000. ISBN 0-596-00027-8. O'Reilly & Associates. 1104pp..

Programming Python. Second Edition. Mark Lutz. Copyright © 2001. ISBN 0-596-00085-5. O'Reilly & Associates.

HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide. Fifth Edition. Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy. Copyright © 2002. ISBN 0-596-00382-X. O'Reilly & Associates. 680pp..

The Unix Programming Environment. Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike. Copyright © 1984. ISBN 0-13-937681-X. Prentice-Hall.

Tex and LaTeX

The LaTeX Companion. Michael Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, and Alexander Samarin. Copyright © 1994. ISBN 0-201-54199-8. Addison-Wesley. 530pp..

LaTeX: A Document Preparation System. Leslie Lamport. Copyright © 1994. ISBN 0-201-52983-1. Addison-Wesley. 256pp..

The TeXbook, Volume A of Computers and Typesetting. Donald Knuth. Copyright © 1986. ISBN 0-201-13448-9. Addison-Wesley. 496pp..

The METAFONT Book, Volume C of Computers and Typesetting. Donald Knuth. Copyright © 1986. ISBN 0-201-13444-6. Addison-Wesley. 386pp..

Good Programming Style

The Practice of Programming. Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike. Copyright © 1999. ISBN 0-201-61586-X. Addison-Wesley.

Programming Pearls. (Second Edition). Jon Bentley. Copyright © 2000. ISBN 0-201-65788-0. Addison-Wesley.

The Art of Unix Programming. Eric S. Raymond. Copyright © 2003. ISBN 0-131-42901-9. Addison-Wesley. 512pp..

Code Reading. The Open Source Perspective. Diomedis Spinellis. Copyright © 2003. Addison-Wesley.

Writing Efficient Programs. Jon Bentley. Copyright © 1982. ISBN 0-13-970251-2 or 0-13-970244-X. Prentice-Hall.

C and C++

The C Programming Language. (Second Edition). Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. Copyright © 1988. ISBN 0-13-110362-8. Addison-Wesley. 272pp..

Who's Afraid of C++?. Steve Heller. Copyright © 1996. ISBN 0-12-339097-4. Academic Press. 508pp..

C System Call Interface

POSIX Programmer's Guide: Writing Portable Unix Programs. Donald Lewine. Copyright © 1992. ISBN 0-937175-73-0. O'Reilly & Associates. 607pp..

Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment. W. Richard Stevens. Copyright © 1993. ISBN 0-201-56317-7. Addison-Wesley.

Linux Application Development. Michael K. Johnson and Erik W. Troan. Copyright © 1998. ISBN 0-201-308215. Addison-Wesley.

Books on Networking

Unix Network Programming, volume 1 -- Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI. W. Richard Stevens. Copyright © 1998. ISBN 0-13-490012-X. Prentice-Hall.

Unix Network Programming, volume 2 -- Interprocess Communication. Richard Stevens. Copyright © 1998. ISBN 0-13-081081-9. Prentice-Hall.

Linux Network Administrator's Guide. Olaf Kirch. Copyright © 1995. ISBN 1-56592-087-2. O'Reilly & Associates.

TCP/IP Network Administration. Craig Hunt. Copyright © 1992. ISBN 0-937175-82-X. O'Reilly & Associates. 472pp..

DNS and BIND. Second Edition. Paul Albiz and Cricket Liu. Copyright © 1998. ISBN 1-56592-512-2. 502pp.. O'Reilly & Associates.

Sendmail. Third Edition. Bryan Costales and Eric Allman. Copyright © 2002. ISBN 1-56592-839-3. 1232pp.. O'Reilly & Associates.

Ancestors of Linux

The Design of the Unix Operating System. Maurice J. Bach. Copyright © 1996. ISBN 0-13-201799-7. 470pp.. Prentice-Hall.

Operating Systems, Design and Implementation. Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Copyright © 1987. ISBN 0-13-638677-6. 940pp.. Prentice-Hall.

The Linux kernel

The Linux Kernel book. Rémy Card, Èric Dumas, and Frank Mével. Copyright © 1998. ISBN 0-471-98141-9. John Wiley & Sons.

LINUX Kernel Programming. (Third Edition). Michael Beck, Harold Bohme, Mirko Dziadka, Robert Magnus, Claus Schroter, and Dirk Verworner. Copyright © 2002. ISBN 0-201-719754. Addison-Wesley. 480pp..

Relatives of Linux

The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Unix Operating System. Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman. Copyright © 1996. ISBN 0-201-54979-4. Addison-Wesley.

Books on Intel and PC hacking

80386 Programmer's Reference Manual. Intel Corporation. Copyright © 1986. ISBN 1-55512-022-9.

80386 System Software Writer's Guide. Intel Corporation. Copyright © 1987. ISBN 1-55512-023-7.

Programming the 80386. John H. Crawford and Patrick P. Gelsinger. Copyright © 1987. ISBN 0-89588-381-3. 774pp..

80386 Hardware Reference Manual. Intel Corporation. Copyright © 1986. ISBN 1-55512-024-5.

The Indispensable PC Hardware Book. Hans-Peter Messmer. Copyright © 1993. ISBN 0-201-62424-9. 1000pp.. Addison-Wesley.