<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >The Linux Reading List HOWTO</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="introduction.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="article" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="title" ><A NAME="AEN2" ></A >The Linux Reading List HOWTO</H1 ><H3 CLASS="author" ><A NAME="AEN4" >Eric Steven Raymond</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="affiliation" ><SPAN CLASS="orgname" ><A HREF="http://www.catb.org/~esr/" TARGET="_top" > Thyrsus Enterprises</A ><BR></SPAN ><DIV CLASS="address" ><P CLASS="address" ><br> <TT CLASS="email" ><<A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com" >esr@thyrsus.com</A >></TT ><br> </P ></DIV ></DIV ><P CLASS="copyright" ><A HREF="ln47.html" >Copyright</A > © 2000 Eric S. Raymond</P ><DIV CLASS="revhistory" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" ><B >Revision History</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 3.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2004-02-04</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: esr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Major update. Removed out-of-date books, added a new one.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 2.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2003-10-28</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: esr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Added TAOUP.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 2.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2003-07-31</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: esr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Major revision, cleaned out obsolete stuff.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.21</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2003-02-22</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: esr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >LDP site has moved.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.20</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2001-06-14</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: esr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Removed "Practical Unix Security"; it's five years old and the material is now covered better by other books.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.19</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2001-06-14</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: esr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Added Ross Anderson's "Security Engineering". Corrected ISBNs.</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="abstract" ><A NAME="AEN50" ></A ><P ></P ><P > This document lists the books I think are most valuable to a person trying to learn Unix (especially Linux) top to bottom. </P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="introduction.html" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.1. <A HREF="introduction.html#purpose" >Purpose of this document</A ></DT ><DT >1.2. <A HREF="introduction.html#newversions" >New versions of this document</A ></DT ><DT >1.3. <A HREF="introduction.html#feedback" >Feedback and Corrections</A ></DT ><DT >1.4. <A HREF="introduction.html#related" >Related Resources</A ></DT ><DT >1.5. <A HREF="introduction.html#conventions" >Conventions Used In This Document</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT ><A HREF="b80.html" >Basic Linux and Unix bibliography</A ></DT ><DT >A. <A HREF="a832.html" >Administrivia</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >A.1. <A HREF="x834.html" >Terms of Use</A ></DT ><DT >A.2. <A HREF="x847.html" >History</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="introduction.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Introduction</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >