Appendix A. Other Sources of Information

A wealth of information on Linux can be found rather easily. One of the most obvious places is on the Internet. Of course, you can be overwhelmed by the vast amounts of information returned from an Internet search. Also, you will find many dead-end Internet addresses.

With this appendix I hope to provide you with the most current sources of information about Linux at the time of this writing.

Books

An advantage of Linux is that it is POSIX compatible. POSIX is an acronym for Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX. POSIX is a set of standards defined by IEEE and ISO that define an interface between software and operating systems. When software conforms to POSIX, there is some assurance that the software ...

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