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Howtos, tips, tutorials; IT ebooks

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Howtos, tips and tutorials; free Linux ebooks

Howtos, tips, tutorialsLinux/IT ebooks
OSTechNix - Open Source - Technology - Linux & Unix Complete Linux Command Line Cheat Sheet
Xmodulo - Linux FAQs, tips and tutorials The GNU/Linux Advanced Administration Guide
Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides Securing & Optimizing Linux Servers
nixCraft — Linux Tips, Hacks, Tutorials, And Ideas In Blog Introduction to Linux – A Hands on Guide
Howtoforge Linux Tutorials Understanding the Linux® Virtual Memory Manager
LibreByte | Tutorials, tips, news and more about Free/Libre Software (GNU/Linux, PHP, MySQL) Linux Bible – Packed with Updates and Exercises
LinuxPitstop | Linux Tips, Techniques, HowTo's & Open Source News A Newbie’s Getting Started Guide to Linux
How-To Geek: Linux Linux from Scratch – Create Your Own Linux OS
Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook, Second Edition
LinuxTechi - Linux Tutorials,Commands,Linux interview questions Securing & Optimizing Linux: The Hacking Solution
2daygeek Shell Scripting: Expert Recipes for Linux, Bash and more
FOSSMint: Everything About Linux and FOSS 4 Free Shell Scripting eBooks for Linux Newbies and Administrators
NixEducation - YouTube IT eBooks Download Free | eBooks-IT.org
Make Tech Easier - Computer Tutorials, Tips and Tricks All IT eBooks - Free IT eBooks Download
LinuxTechLab - Linux Devops,Scripting, how to's, Tips & Tricks Manning Publications
Unix as a Second Language  
Linux Handbook  
Putorius - Linux Tutorials, How-tos, and General Tech Information  
LinuxConfig.org  
Search Results for: essential system tools | Linux Links  
Enable Sysadmin | RedHat  
LinuxCapable  
BEGINNER’S GUIDE FOR LINUX – Start Learning Linux in Minutes  
Linux* Operating System Vendor Websites  

 

 

History of the Internet

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History of the Internet

How does the internet work?
Internet Pioneers
The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women
ARPANET - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Brief History of the Internet – Who Invented It, How it Works, and How it Became the Web We Use Today
Brief History of the Internet - Internet Timeline | Internet Society
History of the Internet - Wikipedia
The History of the Internet in a Nutshell
History of the Internet - to 2022
Learn the History of the Internet in Dr. Chuck's 9-Hour Course
Brief History of the Internet - Internet Timeline | Internet Society
Roads and Crossroads of the Internet History
History of the Internet - YouTube
History of the Internet
Internet Hall of Fame
Perl and the birth of the dynamic web
What is Web3? The Decentralized Internet of the Future Explained
Can the Internet exist without Linux?
Book:Internet
InetDaemon.com | IT tutorials
Happy 30th birthday, IETF: The engineers who made the 'net happen • The Register
How the Internet works: Submarine fiber, brains in jars, and coaxial cables | Ars Technica
Tim Berners-Lee - proposal for the World Wide Web
What is the Five Layers Model? The Framework of the Internet Explained
What is TCP/IP? Layers and Protocols Explained
TCP vs UDP – Which Protocol is Faster?
The TCP/IP Guide - Table Of Contents
HTTP vs HTTPS – What's the Difference?
An Atlas of Cyberspaces- Historical Maps
No credit for Uncle Sam in creating Net? Vint Cerf disagrees | Internet & Media - CNET News
Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? - WSJ.com
Yes, Government Researchers Really Did Invent the Internet | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
The Cluetrain Manifesto - Wikipedia
The Cluetrain Manifesto
The Cluetrain Manifesto - Entire Text Index Page
Eben Moglen: Snowden and the Future

 

World Wide Web...the technical side
World Wide Web Internet protocol suite
HTTP / HTTPS / HTTP/2 / HTTP/3 HTML / HTML5 / CSS
Web browser URL / URI
Web server Router (computing)

The Pundits Corner

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The Pundits Corner

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols - Computerworld
iTWire - The Linux Distillery
Matt Asay - The Register
ComputerworldUK.com - search:open source blogs
Glyn Moody
Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog
Brian Proffitt
Jim Zemlin
Simon Phipps' blog | Open Source Software - InfoWorld
Articles By Matt Hartley - Datamation
Doc Searls
Top 40 Linux blogs
Open Source and GNU/Linux Software - Datamation
Open Source Search Results | ZDNet

 

 

 

 

Computer History and Trends

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A History of Computing

The Next Platform Next Platform Radio
Computer Basics for Absolute Beginners Why the end of Optane is bad news for all IT
A Logic Named Joe: The 1946 sci-fi short that nailed modern tech  
Computer History Museum The National Museum of Computing | Home to The First Electronic Computers
A history of personal computing in 20 objects part 1 | The Register A history of personal computing in 20 objects part 2 | The Register
6 computer labs that gave birth to the digital world History of computer science
30 years of PCs (slideshow) The history of computer storage (slideshow)
Computer Chronicles - YouTube Computer History - YouTube
Computer History History of computing hardware
The Centre for Computing History @ Twitter Computing History - Learning Resources
PARC (company) Research history highlights - IBM
Xerox Alto  
A brief history of computing as seen through the Turing Award ACM TURING AWARDS
Turing machine The Analytical Engine Table of Contents
Enigma Machine Bombe
Have a go with this WW2 German Lorenz cipher machine – in your browser Virtual Lorenz | TNMOC
ENIAC EDVAC
The ENIAC Celebrating Penn Engineering History: ENIAC
Colossus computer Ultra
The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System UNIX History
Unix philosophy What is POSIX? Richard Stallman explains
Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Unix wars
LINUX is obsolete - Andy Tanenbaum/Linus Torvalds debate The biggest events in Linux's history
Linux vs. Unix: What's the difference? LEO - Lyons Electronic Office
Multics The Development of the C Language
Green computing Grid computing
Fifth generation computer Quantum computer
List of pioneers in computer science History of free and open-source software
History of the graphical user interface List of computer term etymologies
Cloud computing Distributed computing
Internet of Things Information technology
In their own words: Unix pioneers remember the good times | Open Source Software - InfoWorld Browser wars
Dennis Ritchie Home Page History of the Internet
The history of Linux: how time has shaped the penguin | News | TechRadar Interactive Timeline of the History of Linux
10 Open Source Technologies You'll Need to Know in 2018 The top 10 greatest geeks of all time - Software - iTnews
How Well Do You Know Your Linux History? | FOSS Force  6 historic tech items that were rescued from the trash | Network World
Relive six decades of the computer desktop's changing face | InfoWorld  Bletchley rebooted: The crypto factory time remembered • The Register
BBC - iWonder - Alan Turing: Creator of modern computing Alan Turing - Publications by Andrew Hodges
Turing_Paper_1936.pdf John Vincent Atanasoff and the Birth of Electronic Digital Computing
Linus Torvalds - Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary - Book Review | BookPage  The most momentous tech events of the past 30 years | Network World
ENIAC Programmers Project Moore's law
PCI Express Compute Express Link
Computer network Ethernet
Local area network Wide area network
Router (computing) Network switch
Geek's Guide | The Register A Geek's Map to Britain
Open Source Technology Trends 2022 – What’s there for you? InfoWorld’s 2022 Technology of the Year Award winners
Web3 Dark web
virtualisation Cellular network
A brief history of virtualisation - Part 1 | Before 'the cloud' was cool: Virtualising the un-virtualisable A brief history of virtualisation - Part 2 | Before the PC: IBM invents virtualisation
A brief history of virtualisation - Part 3 |Fun and games in userland A brief history of virtualisation - Part 4 | Getting the Big Boys excited
A brief history of virtualisation - Part 5 | Playing catch-up Lecture by Grace Hopper | YouTube

 

History of Free/Open Source
Linux turns 30: The biggest events in its history so far
Copyleft  
History of free and open-source software History of the OSI
Free and Open Source Movements Part 1 - History and Philosophies Open Source Content in Education: Part 2 - Developing, sharing, expanding resources
A Brief History of Free and Open Source Software Licensing A history of FOSS law and licensing
Open Source Software: A History Free/Open Source Software: A Brief History And Concept - YouTube
A Brief History of Open Source Software | ConsortiumInfo.org A Brief History of Open Source Software, Part 2: OSS Licenses and Legalities
A Brief History of Open Source Software, Part 3: The FOSS Environment Today How open-source software transformed the business world

 

Computer hardware
History of computing hardware (before 1960) History of computing hardware (1960s-present)
The early days of PCs as seen through DEAD TREES | The Register Classes of computers
Computer Basics for Absolute Beginners Workstation
Mainframe computer Home computer
Personal computer Minicomputer
IBM PC compatible Desktop computer
Tablet computers Laptop
Smartphone Server (computing)
Quantum computer - Wikipedia Blade server
Embedded system Client-server model - Wikipedia
Central processing unit Computer architecture
Computer memory Computer data storage
Microcontroller Microprocessor
Complex instruction set computing Multi-core processor
Reduced instruction set computing List of microprocessors
Computer memory Microprocessor chronology
Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) Field-programmable gate array (FPGA)
Graphics processing unit (GPU) What Is a DPU?
Computer data storage Open Compute Project
System on a chip (SoC) Single-board computer
ARM creators Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber ARM creators Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber - Part Two: the accidental chip
Hardware virtualization Hardware acceleration
RISC-V Instruction set architecture

 

Supercomputers
HPCwire: Global News on High Performance Computing (HPC)
History of supercomputing
Minisupercomputer
TOP500
Home | TOP500 Supercomputer Sites
Cray
Blue Gene
Titan (supercomputer)
Tianhe-2

 

Computer software
History of free and open-source software Free software movement
History of open source in government | Opensource.com Timeline: Open Source in the US Government
Open Source History: Tracing the Origins of Hacker Culture and the Hacker Ethic Hacker culture
White hat (computer security) Black hat
Programming language Malware
Compiler Interpreter
Terminal emulator Desktop environment
Graphical user interface Window manager
X.Org Server Wayland (protocol)
Linux kernel Operating system
Linux distribution What is an OS? Operating System Definition for Beginners
List of operating systems History of operating systems
SCO Group, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corp. SCO–Linux disputes
Timeline of programming languages Timeline of operating systems
File system Device driver
Relational database NoSQL
Block (data storage) Object storage
Infrastructure as a service Platform as a service
Software as a service Cloud storage
Application software What is software defined networking? | Opensource.com
Software-defined networking Software-defined data center
Software-defined storage Operating system-level virtualization
Virtualization Network functions virtualization
Hypervisor Virtual machine
OpenStack Microservices
LXC - Linux Containers Fun:Gospel of Free Software
Unikernel Guide to the Open Cloud 2016
Hyper-converged infrastructure Parallel computing
Distributed computing What is DevOps?
DevOps Open Source and Cloud Computing: Friends or Foes?
Serverless computing Artificial intelligence
Machine learning Big data
Kubernetes Edge computing
Git Software repository
Open standard The evolution of package managers
Emulate home computers of the 70's and 80's through linux API (Application Programming Interface)
How User Revolts Shaped the Linux Desktop infrastructure-as-code
Package manager App store
The History of Artificial Intelligence from the 1950s to Today Timeline Of The Most Important Events In 25 Years Of Linux

 

Unix/Linux System Design
The UNIX Time-Sharing System* Linux kernel design patterns - part 1 [LWN.net]
Linux kernel design patterns - part 2 [LWN.net] Linux kernel design patterns - part 3 [LWN.net]
Ghosts of Unix Past: a historical search for design patterns [LWN.net] Ghosts of Unix past, part 2: Conflated designs [LWN.net]
Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs [LWN.net] Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs [LWN.net]
Posix  

Business Cases For Free/Open Source Software

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Business Cases for Free/Open Source Software

Open source stack solid foundation for All Homes For Oxfam volunteer-driven free software makes sense
Open source Campcaster empowers independent radio broadcasters Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FOSS, or FLOSS)? Look at the Numbers!
Microsoft's high prices drive FSW to Linux, open source Help for Library Computers
Linux, open source software pay off for PayPal Linux to help the Library of Congress save American history
Stretching the Education Dollar With Linux IT security firm trusts open source inside and out
Car dealership uses Asterisk VoIP to stay on "cutting edge" The (awesome) economics of open source
City Net Goes Open Source Schools Save Big with Open Source
How PDAs Are Saving Lives in Africa The Canadian Labour Congress Switches to OpenOffice
How open source saved a school district's IT department PayPal's Matthew Mengerink: Open Source Essential to Success
LTSP saves old hardware in Brazilian doctor's office Linux helps to squeeze the last drop out of oilfields
World's most remote island gets advanced medical support A California city rebuilds network using all open source software
Hospital software vendor McKesson uses Linux to heal IT budgets Mid-Market Heroes: Linux and Outsourcing Help Virgin America Soar
Open Source Software for Business: 12 Leading Apps Paylocity saves money developing on Linux
Athens schools promote 'open source' computing Educating Tux: case studies of Linux deployments in high schools around the world
Navy to focus only on open systems MAMPU migrates to OpenOffice.org and ODF to increase freedom of choice and interoperability
Wall Street still likes Linux, but for new reasons School districts serve up lessons in Linux
Ubuntu breathes new life into school's abandoned hardware Open source key to Al Jazeera's Web 2.0 success
GSA makes the case for open source Running a business on desktop Linux
The Big Board Goes Linux NPR station WBUR Boston adds support for free audio standard
Suncorp envisages Linux, ODF for 20,000 desktops Wall Street becoming Linux stronghold
Insurance company bets health on open source Move Your Business from Windows to Linux
Travelocity's parent company hails Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 A Day Without Open Source
Put The Power of Linux Into Your Business Putting Together A Linux Office
Six Reasons Why Linux Is Right for Small Business Free Software is good for business
Can Ubuntu Linux Really Run My Small Business? OPEN SOURCE GOD: 480+ Open Source Applications
Open Source for Business: Now More Than Ever, Part 1 | Software | LinuxInsider Open Source for Business: Now More Than Ever, Part 2
10 reasons why open source makes sense on smart phones 50 Places Linux is Running That You Might Not Expect
Open Source Software Helped Obama Win the 2012 Election Campaign Who is Using OpenStack? - Datamation
Open Source Power for Small Business in 2014 4 reasons companies say yes to open source - Network World
8 advantages of using open source in the enterprise | The Enterprisers Project The Small Biz Guide to Understanding Linux & Open Source
5 Top Linux Computer Vendors for Small Business It takes an open-source village to make commercial software | ZDNet
Open Source Replacements for Popular Small Business Software - Datamation  49 Open Source Office Tools - Datamation
Economic Impact of Open Source on Small Business - O'Reilly Media  10 best uses for open source software in the business world - TechRepublic
Anniversary of First Linux Kernel Release: A Look at Collaborative Value | Linux.com | The source for Linux information The 7 Best Linux Distros for Business
The Best Linux Desktop for Work Fork YOU! Sure, take the code. Then what? • The Register 
Radio Free Linux  What we can learn from ownCloud's collapse
Linux Key to IT Education and Development in Africa Colliders, containers, dark matter: The CERN atom smasher's careful cloud revolution
Why Linux is better than Windows or macOS for security 5 reasons why you should develop a Linux container strategy
How businesses can bolster their cybersecurity defenses with open source The Open Source Consumption Manifesto

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