Online Computer BooksFree Book ArchivesThis section gives some links to online technical book libraries and collections. The selection of material here is pretty vast..Big Technical Library - Very large collection of online books. O'Reilly Open Books Project - Medium Sized Collection of free and out-of-print O'Reilly books Bruce Perens Open Source Series - Medium sized collection of books on Linux and Open Source technologies FreeTechBooks - A collection of books related to the Free Software / Open-Source movement Andamooka Reader - Another fairly small collection with some really good books stuck in between Lost XPerience .. Free Books & CD's - Yet another collection.. Online Computer Books - U Penn - Some good computer-related documents from U. Penn. Planet Books - Another large collection of computer books.. NovelsThis section is for real computer nerds. This is a collection of computer-related online novels. These books are not technical, but are purely of historical, philosophical, or entertainment value.Free Software / Open-SourceFree as in Freedom - Biography of Richard Stallman. An interesting look at the eccentric genius behind the Free Software Foundation.Open Sources: Voices from the Open-Source Revolution - A collection of interesting essays about the origins and development of the Open-Source software model and community The Cathedral and the Bazaar - THE classic open-source essay by Eric Raymond Homesteading the Noosphere - The second open-source essay by Eric Raymond The Magic Cauldron - The third in Eric Raymond's open-source writings Free For All - Another book about the open-source movement Open Source and Free Software Licensing - How to navigate the maze of open-source SW licenses Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software - Newly released MIT-press book discussing open-source We The Media - A philosophical look at blogs and "grassroots journalism" The Digital 'Underground'The Hacker Crackdown - A fascinating and well-written novel on the history of hackersUnderground - Another professionally-written book on the evolution of the Australian hacker community Approaching Zero - A less professionally written, but nonetheless gripping tale of the computer underground Cyberia - I haven't read this yet, but it looks pretty good The HERETIC - Ditto Technical BooksHere is a few of my favorite technical books, that are available freely online.Security Engineering - Full of anecdotes, and offers a good holistic view of Computer Security TCP-IP Illustrated - Volume 1 - THE TCP/IP classic by the late Richard Stevens Art of Assembly Language Programming - Good Assembly Language resource Linux Device Drivers - Excellent text on device drivers - O'Reilly Linkers and Loaders - Good introductory text to program linking and loading The Art of Unix Programming - A book on Unix Programming by Eric Raymond Linux Network Administrator's Guide - Excellent book on Network Administation - O'Reilly Learning Debian GNU-Linux - Good introductory Debian Linux text - O'Reilly Using Samba - Learn how to use Samba - O'Reilly |