Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds was born in Finland. He graduated from the University of Helsinki and lives with his wife, the six-time karate champion of Finland, and his children. Linus currently works as a programmer on several projects for Transmeta. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Linus Torvalds
You may be a hacker and not even know it. Being a hacker has nothing to do with cyberterrorism, and it doesn't even necessarily relate to the open-source movement. Being a hacker has more to do with your underlying assumptions about stress, time ... [... more]
Random House |
Modern Operating Systems
 From Amazon.co.uk: For software development professionals and computer science students, Modern Operating Systems gives a solid conceptual overview of operating system design, including detailed case studies of Unix/Linux and Windows 2000. Readers [... more]
CDN$129.80
Amazon CA |
The Hacker Ethic
Provocative, Maybe Ground Breaking, Expecting More: The Hacker Ethic is a late 1990s Information Age treatise. The author, a gifted and young sociologist, posits that the Protestant Ethic is gradually giving away to a new paradigm, and that the new [... more]
CDN$27.00
Amazon CA |
Open Sources
From Amazon.com: Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution is a fascinating look at the raging debate that is its namesake. Filled with writings from the central players--from Linux creator Linus Torvalds to Perl creator Larry Wall--the book [... more]
CDN$36.95
Amazon CA |
Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open ...
From Amazon.com: It may be foolish to consider Eric Raymond's recent collection of essays, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, the most important computer programming thinking to follow the Internet revolution. But it would be more unfortunate to overlook the [... more]
CDN$24.95
Amazon CA |
UNIX Filesystems: Evolution, Design, and Implementation
Yet another wannabe Linux filler book: This book reads as filler. You are much better off reading the research papers that this book is based on. It skims the "evolution" of the file system, the "design" discussion is more like " [... more]
CDN$67.50
Amazon CA |
Microsoft Computer Dictionary
From Amazon.com: Computers--and the community of people that surrounds them--do an excellent job of generating jargon. They've created a world of RJ-11 jacks, Lempel Ziv compression, TACACS protocols, and data forks. Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fourth [... more]
CDN$32.99
Amazon CA |
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
From Amazon.com: Most 31-year olds can't boast of being the instigator of a revolution. But then again, the world's leading promoter of open source software and creator of the operating system Linux does humbly call himself an accidental revolutionary-- [... more]
CDN$32.06
Amazon CA |
Just for Fun CD: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
From Amazon.com: Most 31-year olds can't boast of being the instigator of a revolution. But then again, the world's leading promoter of open source software and creator of the operating system Linux does humbly call himself an accidental revolutionary-- [... more]
CDN$44.95
Amazon CA |
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