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.

Linux live on CD ebook free: Knowing Knoppix - The first guide to Knoppix for the complete beginner.pdf (140 pages, 3.8 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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Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing.pdf

This book will show you the licenses, explain how they can be used, and give you the information needed to make informed decisions. Knowing the details, the factual ones and not the FUD, will make you the 'go to' person when these type of questions arise.

--Brian Turner, Free Software Magazine

Oreilly presents this ebook in pdf format and separated each chapter, below is the table of content:

• License/Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Open Source Licensing, Contract, and Copyright Law
• Chapter 2: The MIT, BSD, Apache, and Academic Free Licenses
• Chapter 3: The GPL, LGPL, and Mozilla Licenses
• Chapter 4: Qt, Artistic, and Creative Commons Licenses
• Chapter 5: Non-Open Source Licenses
• Chapter 6: Legal Impacts of Open Source and Free Software Licensing
• Chapter 7: Software Development Using Open Source and Free Software Licenses

Licensing is a major part of what open source and free software are all about, but it's still one of the most complicated areas of law. Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing explains your licensing options, how they compare and interoperate, and how license choices affect project possibilities. If you're an open source/free software developer, this book is an absolute necessity.

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