Knowing Knoppix - The First Guide to Knoppix for The Complete Beginner.pdf

Great Linux ebook for smart people who wants to run astoundingly clever operating system direct from CD .. yes "A LIVE Linux Operating System". Knoppix runs Linux completely from CD, automatically detects hardware in your computer or notebook/laptop, such as video card, sound card, modem, lan car, wifi, pcmcia card, usb car and lots more with a great compatibility lists.

Quit Knoppix as easy as when you start it, just restart and pull the CD out, and the system will back in to your regular system, behave as if nothing has happened.

Also, this awesome operating system is FREE, under the terms of teh GNU General Public License. You will not be charged even a dime to use this Operating System, it also has been proven by million people all around the world.

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Knowing Knoppix is a beginner-friendly book designed to help with these situations:

• You can’t start Windows! Disaster? Possibly not. It is often possible to rescue files from crashed Windows computers, even when Windows cannot be started. This guide takes you step by step through the process.
• You are curious about Linux, and you want to discover what all the fuss is about.
• You want a useful guide to help you get started.

This is not a “dummies” book. Instead, it is for smart people who want - or need - to run Knoppix for the very first time.

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Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition.pdf

Another free ebook from Oreilly books publisher, a Linux ebook.

One of the many advantages of free operating systems, as typified by Linux, is that their internals are open for all to view. The operating system, once a dark and mysterious area whose code was restricted to a small number of programmers, can now be readily examined, understood, and modified by anybody with the requisite skills. Linux has helped to democratize operating systems. The Linux kernel remains a large and complex body of code, however, and would-be kernel hackers need an entry point where they can approach the code without being overwhelmed by complexity. Often, device drivers provide that gateway.

Device drivers take on a special role in the Linux kernel. They are distinct black boxes that make a particular piece of hardware respond to a well-defined internal programming interface; they hide completely the details of how the device works. User activities are performed by means of a set of standardized calls that are independent of the specific driver; mapping those calls to device-specific operations that act on real hardware is then the role of the device driver. This programming interface is such that drivers can be built separately from the rest of the kernel and plugged in at runtime when needed. This modularity makes Linux drivers easy to write, to the point that there are now hundreds of them available.

There are a number of reasons to be interested in the writing of Linux device drivers. The rate at which new hardware becomes available (and obsolete!) alone guarantees that driver writers will be busy for the foreseeable future. Individuals may need to know about drivers in order to gain access to a particular device that is of interest to them. Hardware vendors, by making a Linux driver available for their products, can add the large and growing Linux user base to their potential markets. And the open source nature of the Linux system means that if the driver writer wishes, the source to a driver can be quickly disseminated to millions of users.

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AppleScript Basics.pdf

Applescript is an Apple scripting language for the Macintosh Operating System and included on every Macintosh, which is commonly used to program CGIs for Macintosh based Web servers. This scripting language is very different than traditional programming language, it uses an English-like syntax. Generally, AppleScript is the word used to designate the Mac OS scripting interface, which is meant to operate in parallel with the graphical user interface.

The script below is a valid Applescript statement, it tells Netscape to open the CNN website:
Tell application "Netscape Communicator" to OpenURL "www.CNN.com"
Sounds interesting? It just like how we talk to our friend .. in English of course.

This free ebook, AppleScript Basics.pdf, covers simple basic introduction to the English-like syntax Scripting. Unlike other 'basic' ebook, author of this ebook direct audience to running statement example and not wasting time in the theoritical chapters.

Download free AppleScript ebook: AppleScript Basics.pdf (13 pages pdf file, 0.5 MB).

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OpenSources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

OpenSources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, Oreilly, as title said .. this is really voices of persons behind the open source revolution. Big names such as Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, Mark Stone, Eric S. Raymond, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Scott Bradner, Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, Paul Vixie, Linus Torvalds, Robert Young, Larry Wall, Brian Behlendorf, Bruce Perens, Tim O'Reilly, Jim Hamerly and Tom Paquin with Susan Walton contributed into this ebook.

Table of Content:

• Copyright/CIP Data
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• A Brief History of Hackerdom
• Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable
• The Internet Engineering Task Force
• The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
• Future of Cygnus Solutions: An Entrepreneur's Account
• Software Engineering
• The Linux Edge
• Giving It Away: How Red Hat Software Stumbled Across a New Economic Model and Helped Improve an Industry
• Diligence, Patience, and Humility
• Open Source as a Business Strategy
• The Open Source Definition
• Hardware, Software, and Infoware
• Freeing the Source: The Story of Mozilla
• The Revenge of the Hackers
• Appendix A: The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate
• Appendix B: The Open Source Definition, Version 1.0

This ebook is only available online, pdf is not available .. but you can have the hard cover if you want to, unfortunatelly you have to buy it. Read online: OpenSources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

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Using Samba, 2nd Edition

Another free ebook from OReilly books publisher, ebook on Using Samba. Samba is an extremely useful networking tool for anyone who has both Windows and Unix systems on his network. Running on a Unix system, it allows Windows to share files and printers on the Unix host, and it also allows Unix users to access resources shared by Windows systems.

Although it might seem natural to use a Windows server to serve files and printers to a network containing Windows clients, there are good reasons for preferring a Samba server for this duty. Samba is reliable software that runs on reliable Unix operating systems, resulting in fewer problems and a low cost of maintenance. Samba also offers better performance under heavy loads, outperforming Windows 2000 Server by a factor of 2 to 1 on identical PC hardware, according to published third-party benchmarks. When common, inexpensive PC hardware fails to meet the demands of a huge client load, the Samba server can easily be moved to a proprietary "big iron" Unix mainframe, which can outperform Windows running on a PC many times. If all that weren't enough, Samba has a very nice cost advantage: it's free. Not only is the software itself freely available, but also no client licenses are required, and it runs on high-quality, free operating systems such as Linux and FreeBSD.

Using Samba, 2nd Edition, is published by Oreilly and can only be read online, Using Samba, 2nd Edition

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Wireless LAN Technologies and Windows XP.pdf

This ebook provides an introduction to the Wireless local area network (LAN) technologies being deployed today. It includes an overview of wireless network topologies and general terminology needed to understand the issues. This is followed by a section discussing the various challenges associated with deploying Wireless LAN technologies. Finally a set of solutions to these problems are discussed, featuring how they are implemented/solved by the Windows XP operating system.

Content:

• Introduction
• An Introduction to Wireless LAN
  • Wireless LAN Overview
  • Comparison of Wireless LAN technologies
  • Wireless LAN Topologies
  • How it Works Overview – Infrastructure Mode
  • How it Works Overview – Ad-hoc Mode
• Current Wireless LAN Challenges
  • Security Challenges
  • Roaming User Challenges
  • Configuration Challenges
• Solutions to Wireless LAN Challenges
  • Security – 802.1X
  • Using RADIUS Further Eases the Burden
  • Roaming – Seamless Roaming
  • Configuration – Zero Configuration for Wireless
• Summary
• For More Information

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