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Who doesn’t like free stuff? We put together a selection of free Linux e-books that you can read, in many cases download, and use as references, or simply to learn something. The topics range from advanced programming to Java, from GNU to Emacs, from device drivers to the kernel, and much, much more. You don’t have to pay anything to take part of the wealth of knowledge and information available in these e-books.
Advanced Linux programming
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GNU Emacs manual
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GTK+/Gnome application development
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Java application development on Linux
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Linux device drivers
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Linux kernel in a nutshell
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Linux network administrator’s guide
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Self-service Linux – Mastering the art of problem determination
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The Linux command line
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Ubuntu pocket guide and reference
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A lot of reading, and there’s more!
We hope you find this selection of books useful. If you have suggestions for other free books or other resources you’d like to share, put them in the comments below. And if you didn’t get enough of reading with this article, we do also offer a weekly suggested reading article, with 5-10 articles each week on a different topic.
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Main on May 16th, 2012 by Pingdom
Do you live in a country that loves Apple’s iPad? Most of us probably think we do, but we wanted to be able to tell you for sure. So even though we have written about the iPad many times before, it’s now time for us to tackle this hotly contested topic again.
Read on to find out, which countries are the most iPad-friendly.
Perhaps you live in one of them.
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Main on May 15th, 2012 by Pingdom
Display resolutions are increasing every year, something that’s being taken to its extreme with the recent “retina display” trend that came with the latest iPad. The jump in onscreen pixels is massive, and such displays are soon bound to make their way into regular laptops and desktop displays, perhaps as soon as this year.
This development will have a profound effect on the size of the graphics resources necessary for websites, which ultimately will make websites bigger, more bloated and slower to download. That is, if we don’t change tactics.
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Main on May 14th, 2012 by Pingdom
The juggernaut that is Facebook is quickly approaching 1 billion users, so the social network is growing at a rapid pace overall.
But if we look at some of the latest figures available, it would seem that Zuckerberg’s creation is not gaining users in every corner of the world.
In fact, in one country, Facebook has lost 16% of its users over the last six months, the equivalent of over 200,000 users. But in another country, Facebook has gained almost 17 million users over the same period.
What countries are we talking about, you ask? Read on and we’ll tell you.
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Main on May 11th, 2012 by Pingdom
Developers who want a portable computer to code on, which is thin, light, sleek and yet powerful, may now be getting another option in an ultrabook from Dell. What makes the “Sputnik” ultrabook different is that it runs Ubuntu 12.04 Linux and it’s tailor-made for developers.
Every Friday we bring you a collection of links to places on the web that we find particularly newsworthy, interesting, entertaining, and topical. We try to focus on some particular area or topic each week, but in general we will cover Internet, web development, networking, performance, security, and other geeky topics.
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Main on May 11th, 2012 by Pingdom
“Photograph what is close to you. Share it with the world!“ That’s one of the headlines on Aday.org, a global project that will attempt to document what goes around the world in one day.
This all takes place on Tuesday May 15, 2012, and Pingdom will be participating.
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