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A List of Suggested Reading for Linux people.

  * "Running Linux, Fourth Edition":http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux4 By: Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, Terry Dawson, and Lar Kaufman O'Reilly & Associates

  * "Linux in a Nutshell, Third Edition":http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxnut3/ By: Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, Jessica P. Hekman, Stephen Figgins O'Reilly & Associates

  * "Linux Network Administrator's Guide, 2nd Edition":http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linag2/ By: Olaf Kirch, Terry Dawson O'Reilly & Associates

  * "Learning Red Hat Linux, 2nd Edition":http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/redhat2/ By: Bill !McCarty O'Reilly & Associates

  * "Building Secure Servers with Linux":http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bssrvrlnx/ By: Michael D. Bauer O'Reilly & Associates

A List of Suggested Reading for Technical People

  * "Technopoly":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679745408/qid=1045932189/sr8-2/refsr_8_2/002-5634990-5861619?vglance&sbooks&n=507846 By: "Neil Postman":http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Postman.html Vintage Books

  * "Silicon Snake Oil":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385419945/qid1045932306/=sr2-1/002-5634990-5861619?vglance&sbooks By: Cliff Stoll

  * "High Tech Heretic":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385489765/refpd_bxgy_tex=t_1/002-5634990-5861619?vglance&sbooks By: Cliff Stoll

  * "Envisioning Information":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0961392118/qid1045932447/sr2-=2/refsr_2_2/002-5634990-5861619 By: Edward Tufte

A List of Suggested Reading about Programming

  Object Oriented Programming and Languages

    * "Design Patterns":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201633612 By:  Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

    * "Thinking in Java":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0131002872 By: "Bruce Eckell (**Comment:** A very good introduction to Object Oriented Programming, it happens to use Java but can be applied to other languages easily.)

    * "Design Patterns Explained":http://www.bookpool.com/.x/togxdw4ct0/ss/1?qs0201715945 By: Alan Shalloway, James Trott (**Comment:** A friendly introduction to the design pattern concept.  Assumes a basic knowledge of objects.)

    * "The Pragmatic Programmer: from journeyman to master":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/020161622X/102-2068139-355534=5 By "Andrew Hunt, David Thomas":http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ (**Comments:** First book I've seen that defines "orthogonality" in the programming context.  Quite open-source friendly.)

  Books on MySQL

    * "MySQL & mSQL":http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/msql/ By: Randy Jay Yarger, George Reese & Tim King

    * "MySQL":http://127.0.0.1 (someone please fix this link By: "Paul DuBois":http://www.newriders.com/isapi/authorid~%7B42B55AC7-512F-4A63-89A4-9=69823271AE5%7D/st~%7BD4AACA0E-DFD8-43A2-B7EE-E249479293F0%7D/session_id~%7B=768EBE97-31A4-486B-ABFF-1ADF82995D12%7D/authors/bio.asp

General books on relational database usage and theory.

    * "The Practical SQL Handbook":http://www.bookpool.com/.x/togxdw3134/sm/0201703092 By: Judith Bowman, et al.  (**Comment:** An excellent introduction to and reference on the Standard Query Language for relational databases.)

    * "Relational Database Design: Clearly Explained":http://www.bookpool.com/.x/togxdwru8i/sm/1558608206 By Jan L.  Harrington.  (**Comment:** A non-technical introduction, as advertised in the title.)

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