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Howtos, tips and tutorials; free Linux ebooks

Howtos, tips, tutorials	Linux/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
Search Results \| Enable Sysadmin
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
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	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
Cellular network	A brief history of virtualisation - Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5

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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Understanding FOSS

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Howtos, tips, tutorials; IT ebooks

Howtos, tips and tutorials; free Linux ebooks

History of the Internet

History of the Internet

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The Pundits Corner

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A History of Computing

Business Cases For Free/Open Source Software

Business Cases for Free/Open Source Software

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