If you haven't read it, I liked "In the Beginning was the Command Line" by Neal Stephenson.
-Deke On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Tracy R Reed wrote: > > I am collecting reading materials for people who are new to Linux/Unix but > want to learn. A few years ago I ran across a really good essay about why > Linux works, the spirit, the community, the theories of Unix, etc. It really > pulled it all together. And now I can't for the life of me remember where it > was. I really should have been keeping a list of such things but I already > bookmark so much and rarely refer back to much of it. But occasionally there > is that 1% that I do refer back to and I am glad I bookmarked or curse myself > that I didn't. > > So I'm putting together a list of classic/really good essays about the spirit > and implementation of Linux/Unix and FOSS etc. Suitable for a newbie to the > scene. No ACM papers please. > > Suggestions? > > > -- > Tracy R Reed Read my blog at http://ultraviolet.org > Key fingerprint = D4A8 4860 535C ABF8 BA97 25A6 F4F2 1829 9615 02AD > Non-GPG signed mail gets read only if I can find it among the spam. > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
