David Howe wrote:
> I just wanted to poll the list on which Linux manuals or instructional
> books that they have found particularly good.
> I have found "Linux Cookbook" (O'Reilly ISBN 0-596-00640-3) to be useful
> in the past but it does lack in some departments. It provide quick fixes
> but does not go into too much depth.
>>
Well, obviously by the nature of the beast, single books going into lots
of depth will necessarily be more specialised and perhaps advanced,
unless they're also effing enormous with tiny print... :-)
e.g. For linux kernel innards, there's
"Linux Device Drivers" by Corbet, Rubini & Kroah-Hartman, alongside
"Understanding the Linux Kernel" by Bovet & Cesati.
Bear in mind a lot of general unixy books are largely relevant to linux,
e.g. the "POSIX Programmer's Guide: Writing Portable UNIX Programs" by
Lewine is pretty handy to have if you're writing code on linux, just as
on unix. Yeah, it's a pretty old book at this stage, but it covers
absolutely core topics for unix and linux programmers, basic facilities
like forking child processes, fifos, signal handling, terminal i/o and
job control which are used everywhere and taken for granted but seldom
so lucidly explained.
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