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Documentation, books and our course materials on Linux-based programs

Documentation is freely available on the Internet for many Linux programs. Lack of documentation was a criticism of open-source programs, but documentation provision has shown marked improvement in recent years. Links to documentation-available-on-the-Internet to areas of interest to our courses are given below:

Documentation on the Linux kernel and related areas

This area is of interest to our Linux-fundamentals courses, our Linux-networking courses and above all to our Linux-embedded courses.

General information on Linux:

The Linux Documentation Project.
LinuxHQ -a website with links to useful articles.

Generalities on the Linux kernel: The Linux kernel: how it works,
Generalities on the Linux kerne2: Cross-referencing Linux,
Linux kernel programming-kernel2.4

The Linux kernel-module programming guide2002-kernel 2.4
Linux kernel 2.4 internals,
The Linux kernel-module programming guide2003-kernel 2.4
Linux kernel programming lectures 2003 (cs378)

The Linux kernel2.6/kernel programming for kernel2.6

The wonderful world of Linux 2.6
The Linux kernel (blueprints for world domination) 2003,
Migrating to kernel2.6: migrating device drivers (part2) Feb 2004,
Porting device drivers to the 2.6 kernel
The Linux kernel module programming guide - kernel 2.6 (2005)

File-systems: design and implementation of ext2
Device drivers:

Writing a Linux device driver (2000),
Linux device drivers -2nd edition 2001 (Oreilly online catalogue)
Programming guide for usb device drivers (2000),

Networking and firewalls:

Linux netfilter hacking howto (2002),
The journey of a packet through the Linux 2.4 network stack (2001),
Building into the Linux network layer.

Measurement and control:

The linux control amd neasurement device interface - the comedi project.

Documentation on Linux programming tools

This area is of importance to our Linux-embedded courses.

The gcc and c programming

GUI-toolkits

Java tutorials and documentation

Kylix documentation,

Documentation on user-space (client-server) programs

This area is important to our Linux-networking courses and database courses.

Documentation on Apache-server1.3 series,
Documentation on Apache server2.x series,
Apache-Tomcat documentation ,
SAMBA documentation,
Sendmail documentation,
Exim documentation,
Mailman documentation,
Postfix documentation,
PostgreSQL documentation.

Documentation user-space-programs (workstation) programs

This area is important to our introduction-to-linux courses

Common Linux desktops and office suites:

kde documentation,
gnome documentation,
Openoffice documentation site 1and site 2,
KOffice documentation,

Documentation and tutorials for CAD-on-Linux programs

Gimp documentation/tutorial

gimp documentation ,
excellent gimp tutorial; the book 'Grokking the gimp'.

Other sources of documentation are the growing library of books on Linux and related programs. Basis Volume is a supplier of Linux books.

Useful Books:

Our training courses are often bundled with recommended books. Additional books are available through Basis Volume Limited. The company (the LUG's main funder) has extensive links with major publishing houses (including the publishers of the Linux Certification books). Accordingly all our seminars also use the best of the commercial books available. And these books are available at substantially reduced prices to trainees.

Books on Linux installation and system administration:

Modern commercial Linux distributions such as SuSE, Mandrake, RedHat etc have excellent documentation on Linux installation. These are provided in the bundled distributions such as with our Introduction-to-Linux course. Good books on Linux System Administration include Linux System Administration by M Carling et al.

Books on Linux server applications:

Web Servers, LAN Servers and Databases: The recommended books are bundled with the course. For additional books, please contact Basic Volume who can supply modern books on Apache, Apache-Tomcat, JSP/Servlets, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Samba.

Books on Linux workstation applications:

Good books on workstation applications include

Teach Yourself Gimp in 24 Hours By J Pruitt,
Grokking the Gimp by C Bunks. (The online version is given above.)

Books on Linux Programming:

gnuC, C++, QT programming : C is the language of Linux and excellent documentation (as shown above) is available from the gnu site. Good books on C programming on Linux include:

Teach yourself C For Linux Programming in 21 days by E de Castro,
Beginning Linux Programming: by R Stones et al.

Good books on the c++ GUI toolkit called QT includes

Teach yourself Qt Programming in 24 hours by D Solin.
Excellent documentation is also available in downloaded QT.

JAVA programming: A good introductory book is Teach yourself Java2 in 24 hours by R Cadenhead.

Materials for certification courses.

Our certification course materials follow the guidance and syllabuses of certification bodies such as SAIR, LPI, ECDL PostgreSQL-certification groups. We also synthesise materials from our extensive library of Linux books. If your are interested in using our certification materials for your training courses, please contact us. We also publish excerpts from our courses on this site. Links are normally given to these from training-venues page.

Contact us

For information about Linux resources (books, machines and interface cards) available from Basis Volume please browse the b-vol website. and click on b-vIT.

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