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-The Linux Reading List HOWTO
-!!!The Linux Reading List HOWTO
-!Eric Steven Raymond Thyrsus Enterprises
-
- esr@thyrsus.com
-
-
-
-
-Copyright (c) 2000 by Eric S. Raymond
-
-
-__Revision History__Revision 1.202001-06-14Revised by: esrRemoved "Practical Unix Security"; it's five years old and
-the material is now covered better by other books.Revision 1.192001-06-14Revised by: esrAdded Ross Anderson's "Security Engineering". Corected ISBNs.
-
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-
-
-
- This document lists the books I think are most valuable to a person
-trying to learn Unix (especially Linux) top to bottom.
-
-
-
-
-
-----; __Table of Contents__; 1. Introduction: ; 1.1. Purpose of this document; 1.2. New versions of this document; 1.3. Feedback and Corrections; 1.4. Related Resources; 1.5. Conventions Used In This Document; Basic Linux and Unix bibliography; A. Administrivia: ; A.1. Terms of Use; A.2. History----
-!!!1. Introduction
-!!1.1. Purpose of this document
-
-This document lists what I consider to be the essential book-length
-references for learning Unix (especially Linux) and how to program under
-it.
-
-----
-!!1.2. New versions of this document
-
-New versions of the Linux Reading List HOWTO will be periodically
-posted to comp.os.linux.answers. They will also be uploaded to
-various Linux WWW and FTP sites, including the LDP home page.
-
-
-
-You can also view the latest version of this on the World Wide
-Web via the URL http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Reading-List-HOWTO.html.
-
-----
-!!1.3. Feedback and Corrections
-
-If you have questions or comments about this document (or just
-want to suggest a book that you think should be on it), please feel
-free to mail Eric S. Raymond, at `esr@thyrsus.comb. I welcome any
-suggestions or criticisms.
-
-----
-!!1.4. Related Resources
-
-For on-line HOWTOs, magazines, and other non-book material, see the
-Linux Documentation Project
-home page.
-
-
-
-Some years ago I wrote a less Linux-focused Unix bibliography that
-may still be of some interest and retains a certain amusement
-value. You can find the Loginataka
here.
-
-
-
-SAGE, the System Administrator's Guild, maintains an excellent
-list of relevant books.
-
-----
-!!1.5. Conventions Used In This Document
-
-Comments not in quotes below are either mine, or I have seen no reason to
-change them from those of Jim Haynes (previous maintainer of this document).
-Comments sent in by others are in quotes, and have the name of the
-commentator before them (JH is Jim Haynes).
-
-
-
-"See" URLs attached to publishing information point directly into the
-publisher's web catalog and typically take you to a page containing
-a cover shot, blurbs, and ordering information. Books that don't
-have these lack them because the publisher is using frames and the
-catalog pages can't be bookmarked.
-
-
-
-Topic listings go roughly from the outside in (culture to user-land
-programming to kernel programming to hardware). Within sections I have
-tried to list the most useful books first insofar as I am familiar with them.
-It's just an embarrassing coincidence that this lists one of my books
-first, honest! (Suggestions for a better organization cheerfully
-accepted.)
-
-----
-!!!Basic Linux and Unix bibliography
-!!!Books on Culture, History, and Pragmatics
-
-''The New Hacker's Dictionary'', Third Edition, Edited by Eric S. Raymond, 1996, ISBN -262-68092-, MIT Press, 547pp..
-
-
-
-Um, er. A guide to Internet culture. Lots of people like it.
-HTML at the Jargon File
-Resource Page.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-
-
-''A Quarter Century of Unix'', Edited by Peter H. Salus, 1994, ISBN -201-54777-5, Addison-Wesley, 255pp..
-
-
-
-Linux is part of the Unix tradition. This book is an oral
-history of Unix -- how it originated, how it evolved, how it spread
--- by the people who were there.
-
-
-
-''The Mythical Man Month'', Anniversary Edition, Frederic P. Brooks, 1995, ISBN -201-83595-9, Addison-Wesley.
-
-
-
-The one book on software engineering everyone should read.
-
-
-
-Alan Cox: "This I'd recommend not for its technical
-value but for its application of common sense and reality to computing
-projects." JH: "Ah, yes. What if Linus had been given 200
-programmers and had been told to produce Linux in 3 months!"
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-
-
-''Bell System Technical Journal'', AT8T, 1978, July-August 1978, Vol. 57, No. 6, part 2, 416pp..
-
-
-
-Many early papers on Unix,
-including Ritchie 8 Thompson, "The UNIX Time
-Sharing System"; Thompson, "UNIX Implementation"; Ritchie, "A
-Retrospective"; Bourne, "The UNIX Shell"...
-
-----
-!!!Linux basics
-
-''Linux Installation and Getting Started'', Edited by Matt Welsh, 1997, Linux Documentation Project.
-
-
-
-Available on the LDP home page, or
-directly at http://linuxdoc.org/LDP/gs/.
-
-
-
-How to bring up Linux. Explains a lot of Linux basics. Covers
-basic system administration.
-
-
-
-''Linux System Administrator's Guide'', Edited by Lars Wirzenius, 1997, Linux Documentation Project.
-
-
-
-Available on the LDP home page, or
-directly at http://linuxdoc.org/LDP/sag/.
-
-
-
-An excellent first book on how to maintain and administer a
-Linux system.
-
-
-
-''Linux in a Nutshell'', Second Edition, Jessica P. Hekman, 1999, ISBN 1-56592-585-8, O'Reilly 8 Associates.
-
-
-
-According to O'Reilly, "The Desktop Reference for Linux". For
-Linux users this obsoletes their "Unix In a Nutshell" which was
-SVr4/Solaris-oriented.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-
-
-''Running Linux'', Third Edition, Matt Welsh, 1999, ISBN 1-56592-469-X, O'Reilly 8 Associates.
-
-
-
-Everything you need in order to understand, install, and use the
-Linux operating system. Excellent beginner's book.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-
-
-''Hands-On Linux'', Mark G. Sobel, 1998, ISBN -201-32569-1, Addison-Wesley, 1015pp..
-
-
-
-Just what the title says -- practical tutorials in basic Unix,
-shells, editors, mail programs, networking, Web tools, and
-utilities. Covers some system administration fundamentals.
-(This appears to be a repackaging of 1997's ``A Practical Guide
-to Linux'' from the same author, without Caldera !OpenLinux Lite
-included.)
-
-
-
-''Essential System Administration'', Second Edition, Aeleen Frisch, 1995, ISBN 1-56592-127-5, O'Reilly 8 Associates.
-
-
-
-More in-depth coverage of normal system-administration tasks.
-Not Linux-specific but contains Linux material.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-----
-!!!System Security
-
-''Security Engineering'''': ''''A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems'', Ross Anderson, 2001, -471-38922-6, Wiley.
-
-
-
-The best book I've ever seen on technological security
-measures and general computer security.
-The section on "How to Steal a Painting" and physical alarm systems
-is worth the price of admission by itself.
-
-
-
-''Real World Linux Security'''': ''''Intrusion Prevention, Detection, and Recovery'', Bob Toxen, 2000, ISBN -13-028187-5, Prentice-Hall.
-
-
-
-This is excellent work, the standard by which future Linux
-security books will be judged. I wrote a foreword for it. Combines
-step-by-step practical instructions on hardining a Linux system
-with good theory on attack paths, rings of protection, and security
-analysis. Describes many counters for specific exploits.
-
-----
-!!!Books on Shell, Script, and Web Programming
-
-''Programming Perl'', Third Edition, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant, 2000, ISBN -596-00027-8, O'Reilly 8 Associates, 1104pp..
-
-
-
-Shell (as a programming language for more than trivial scripting)
-is dead. Perl rules in its place (though it is now being strongly
-challenged by Python). This is the third edition of
-the definitive Perl book.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-
-
-Emmanuel Pierre keeps a short list of Perl
-books.
-
-
-
-''Programming Python'', First Edition, Mark Lutz, 1997, ISBN -56592-197-6, O'Reilly 8 Associates, 880pp..
-
-
-
-The next step beyond Perl. Python is beautifully designed,
-has better integration with C, and scales up more gracefully to large
-projects.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-
-
-''HTML 8 XHTML: The Definitive Guide'', Fourth Edition, Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy, 2000, ISBN -596-00026-X, O'Reilly 8 Associates, 680pp..
-
-
-
-The best HTML tutorial/reference I have ever seen, and the only
-HTML book you need unless you also want to do CGI. I don't know of
-any other book on HTML that comes within miles of this one for
-comprehensiveness, depth, and quality of organization.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-
-
-''The Unix Programming Environment'', Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, 1984, ISBN -13-937681-X, Prentice-Hall.
-
-
-
-A true classic -- possibly the best single-book exposition of the
-Unix philosophy. Useful for learning shell programming.
-
-----
-!!!Tex and LaTeX
-
-''The LaTeX Companion'', Michael Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, and Alexander Samarin, 1994, ISBN -201-54199-8, Addison-Wesley, 530pp..
-
-
-
-`If you are one of those users who would like to know how
-LaTeX can be extended to create the nicest documents possible
-without becoming a (La)TeX guru, then this book is for you' ---
-from the Preface. Bruce Thompson adds: "A very nice book providing
-a lot of information about the new extensions to LaTeX, provides a
-large number of examples showing precisely how your document's
-layout can be manipulated"
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-
-
-''LaTeX: A Document Preparation System'', Leslie Lamport, 1994, ISBN -201-52983-1, Addison-Wesley, 256pp..
-
-
-
-Bruce Thompson: "The ultimate reference on LaTeX 2.09 by its
-author. A new edition covering LaTeX2e (the version included in
-the current TeX/LaTeX distribution) is in preparation. LaTeX 2.09
-is fully supported by LaTeX2e. A must for anyone wanting to use
-LaTeX. Provides a gentle introduction to document preparation and
-the various tools that LaTeX provides for producing professional
-quality documents. Lots of examples."
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-
-
-''The !TeXbook, Volume A of Computers and Typesetting'', Donald Knuth, 1986, ISBN -201-13448-9, Addison-Wesley, 496pp..
-
-
-
-Bruce Thompson: "The definitive user's guide and complete
-reference manual for TeX. Probably not needed for casual LaTeX
-use, but a fascinating book nonetheless." I'll strengthen that by
-adding that this book is not for the faint of heart.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-
-
-''The METAFONT Book, Volume C of Computers and Typesetting'', Donald Knuth, 1986, ISBN -201-13444-6, Addison-Wesley, 386pp..
-
-
-
-Bruce Thompson: "The definitive user's guide and reference
-manual for METAFONT, the companion program to TeX for designing
-fonts. An excellent work if you're planning to design your own
-fonts for use in TeX and LaTeX. METAFONT is included with the
-normal TeX/LaTeX distribution." This book is
-''definitely'' not for the faint of heart.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-----
-!!!Good Programming Style
-
-''The Practice of Programming'', Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, 1999, ISBN -201-61586-X, Addison-Wesley.
-
-
-
-An excellent treatise on writing high-quality programs,
-surely destined to become a classic of the field.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-
-
-''Programming Pearls'', (Second Edition), Jon Bentley, 2000, ISBN -201-65788-, Addison-Wesley.
-
-
-
-These are selected essays from Bentley's column in the
-Communications of the ACM. He discusses a wide variety of issues in
-program improvement, often focusing on program efficiency.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-
-
-''Writing Efficient Programs'', Jon Bentley, 1982, ISBN -13-970251-2 or -13-970244-X, Prentice-Hall.
-
-
-
-This book presents Bentley's methodology and set of rules for
-improving program efficiency, and includes a large number of
-examples.
-
-----
-!!!C and C++
-
-''The C Programming Language'', (Second Edition), Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, 1988, ISBN -13-110362-8, Addison-Wesley, 272pp..
-
-
-
-The improved second edition, covering ANSI C, of the original
-classic C book coauthored by C's designer, "K8R". Still the
-best!
-
-
-
-''Who's Afraid of C++?'', Steve Heller, 1996, ISBN -12-339097-4, Academic Press, 508pp..
-
-
-
-The best introductory book on C++ I have seen. Now available
-on the Web.
-
-----
-!!!C System Call Interface
-
-''POSIX Programmer's Guide: Writing Portable Unix Programs'', Donald Lewine, 1992, ISBN -937175-73-, O'Reilly 8 Associates, 607pp..
-
-
-
-Linux hews very close to the letter of the POSIX standard
-(non-conformance is considered a bug and swiftly fixed).
-This excellent reference for POSIX is thus also an excellent
-reference for the Linux kernel API.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-
-
-''Advanced Programming in The Unix Environment'', Richard Stevens, 1992, ISBN -201-56317-7, Addison-Wesley.
-
-
-
-A book on general Unix programming that is every bit as good as
-Stevens's classic on network programming.
-
-
-
-''Linux Application Development'', Michael K. Johnson and Erik W. Troan, 1998, ISBN -201-308215, Addison-Wesley.
-
-
-
-The best single reference to the Linux API. Covers the
-features that aren't generic Unix or Posix.
-
-----
-!!!Books on Networking
-
-''Unix Network Programming, volume 1 -- Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI'', Richard Stevens, 1998, ISBN -13-490012-X, Prentice-Hall.
-
-
-
-Everything you might want to know about the subject. Generally
-regarded as definitive on the basics.
-
-
-
-''Unix Network Programming, volume 2 -- Interprocess Communication'', Richard Stevens, 1998, ISBN -13-081081-9, Prentice-Hall.
-
-
-
-Ditto...
-
-
-
-''Linux Network Administrator's Guide'', Olaf Kirch, 1995, ISBN 1-56592-087-2, O'Reilly 8 Associates.
-
-
-
-Available on the LDP home page, or
-directly at http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/nag/nag.html.
-
-
-
-An excellent first book on how to maintain and administer a
-networked Linux system.
-
-
-
-''TCP/IP Network Administration'', Craig Hunt, 1992, ISBN -937175-82-X, O'Reilly 8 Associates, 472pp..
-
-
-
-Less Linux-specific than the Kirch book. Features deeper
-coverage of the TCP/IP core, including routing and BGP.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-
-
-''DNS and BIND'', Second Edition, Paul Albiz and Cricket Liu, 1998, ISBN 1-56592-512-2, 502pp., O'Reilly 8 Associates.
-
-
-
-In-depth coverage of DNS, useful for people running complicated
-multiple-subnet installations. Covers BIND library programming.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-
-
-''Sendmail'', Second Edition, Bryan Costales and Eric Allman, 1997, ISBN 1-56592-222-, 1050pp., O'Reilly 8 Associates.
-
-
-
-An exhaustive (and exhausting) guide to Linux's and Unix's
-default mail-transfer agent.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-----
-!!!Ancestors of Linux
-
-''The Design of the Unix Operating System'', Maurice J. Bach, 1996, ISBN -13-201799-7, 470pp., Prentice-Hall.
-
-
-
-The book that got Linus started.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-
-
-''Operating Systems, Design and Implementation'', Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1987, ISBN -13-638677-6, 940pp., Prentice-Hall.
-
-
-
-Alan Cox likes this book. Tanenbaum designed Minix, which is
-the system Linus bootstrapped Linux up from.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-----
-!!!The Linux kernel
-
-''The Linux Kernel book'', Rémy Card, Èric Dumas, and Frank Mével, 1998, ISBN -471-98141-9, John Wiley 8 Sons.
-
-
-
-(Translated from the French language edition of
-"Programmation Linux 2."; same authors; 1997; Éditions
-Eyrolles; Paris, France.)
-
-
-
-A very interesting and informative examination of the
-operation of the kernel that fills in the gap between the POSIX
-interface and "The Design of the Unix Operating System" and the
-Linux source code. A good understanding of the design and
-operation of a Unix OS is a pre-requisite, but this book is an
-excellent help to going beyond that general understanding into
-actual work.
-
-
-
-The primary author is one of the core developers for the ext2
-filesystem, and the Linux Kernel book shows a firm grasp of the
-matter and clear explanations and structure. It's surprisingly
-readable for something working at such a low level. The book does
-seem to have suffered a little in the translation to English --
-there are a few typos and grammatical mistakes, but it's quite
-readable. (The code example files are charmingly still named in
-French.)
-
-
-
-The book is current to Linux 2..35 and foreshadows 2.1 and 2.2.
-Network protocol implementations are not covered.
-
-
-
-''Linux Kernal Hacker's Guide'', Edited by Michael K. Johnson, Linux Documentation Project.
-
-
-
-Available on the LDP home page, or
-directly at http://linuxdoc.org/LDP/khg/.
-
-
-
-According to the author, this has been superseded by
-Alessandro Rubini's book (see below) but it remains a useful
-supplement.
-
-
-
-''Linux Device Drivers'', Alessandro Rubini, 1998, ISBN 1-56592-292-1, O'Reilly 8 Associates, 442pp..
-
-
-
-Everything you need to know about writing device drivers
-under Linux; kernel APIs, interrupt handling, the module interface.
-Includes many examples.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-
-
-''LINUX Kernel Internals'', (Second Edition), Michael Beck, Harold Bohme, Mirko Dziadka, and Ulrich Kunitz, 1998, ISBN -201-33143-8, Addison-Wesley, 480pp..
-
-
-
-A guide to Linux kernel programming; covers 2.. Covers the
-architecture of the Linux core and network layer as well as driver
-construction.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-----
-!!!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, 1996, ISBN -201-54979-4, Addison-Wesley.
-
-
-
-The successor to a classic book on the implementation of the
-4.3 BSD kernel, which influenced Linux's design (especially near
-sockets and networking). This book covers the 4.4BSD base of BSD/OS,
-FreeBSD, and NetBSD.
-
-
-
- Order here.
-
-----
-!!!Books on Intel and PC hacking
-
-''80386 Programmer's Reference Manual'', Intel Corporation, 1986, ISBN 1-55512-022-9.
-
-
-
-Part I. Applications Programming, data types, memory model,
-instruction set. Part II. Systems Programming, architecture,
-memory management, protection, multitasking, I/O, exceptions and
-interrupts, initialization, coprocessing and multiprocessing. Part
-III. Compatibility (with earlier x86 machines). Part
-IV. Instruction Set
-
-
-
-''80386 System Software Writer's Guide'', Intel Corporation, 1987, ISBN 1-55512-023-7.
-
-
-
-This explains the 386 features for operating system writers. It
-includes a chapter on Unix implementation. A lot of the 80386
-architecture seems to have been designed with Multics in mind; the
-features are not used by DOS or by Unix.
-
-
-
-''Programming the 80386'', John H. Crawford and Patrick P. Gelsinger, 1987, ISBN -89588-381-3, 774pp..
-
-
-
-This is the book the Jolitzes used when they ported BSD to the
-386 architecture.
-
-
-
-''80386 Hardware Reference Manual'', Intel Corporation, 1986, ISBN 1-55512-024-5.
-
-
-
-Pin connections, timing, waveforms, block diagrams, voltages,
-all that kind of stuff.
-
-
-
-''The Indispensable PC Hardware Book'', Hans-Peter Messmer, 1993, ISBN -201-62424-9, 1000pp., Addison-Wesley.
-
-
-
-JH: "Covers the more recent stuff like EIDE and PCI."
-
-----
-!!!A. Administrivia
-!!!A.1. Terms of Use
-
-This document is copyright 1999 by Eric S. Raymond. You may use,
-disseminate, and reproduce it freely, provided you:
-
-
-
-
-
-
-*
-
-Do not omit or alter this copyright notice.
-
-
-*
-*
-
-Do not omit or alter or omit the version number and date.
-
-
-*
-*
-
-Do not omit or alter the document's pointer to the current WWW
-version.
-
-
-*
-*
-
-Clearly mark any condensed, altered or versions as such.
-
-
-*
-
-These restrictions are intended to protect potential readers from
-stale or mangled versions. If you think you have a good case for
-an exception, ask me.
-
-----
-!!!A.2. History
-
-This was originally a mini-HOWTO maintained by Jim Haynes.
-I have changed the emphasis somewhat, trying to make it more
-a standalone document and less reliant on the various USENET
-bibliographic postings. The unattributed mini-reviews are mine
-rather than his
.
+Describe [HowToReadingListHOWTO]
here.
