This is the Bibliography and Reader Guide of FTLinuxCourse.
 
 
 
Stephen Coffin
UNIX the Complete Reference 
McGraw-Hill, 1988. 

    This is the first and the better book I read about UNIX. This is a Complete Reference Book, include examples, and explain the topics. 
    This is UNIX book, not a Linux book. 
Samuel J.Leffler, McKusick, Karels, Quarterman
The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System
Addison Wesley, 1989. 


 
This is a classical UNIX book that explain all the development had been made to finish the Berkeley UNIX OS. 

This book is used as a standard book in Operating System course in different Universities. 

Includes: Kernel Service, Process Management, Memory, I/O System, The Filesystem, Device Drivers, Interprocess and other UNIX topics. 

Brian W. Kerningham - Rob Pike. 
The UNIX Programming Environment.
 Prentice-Hall Software Series 1984 

    This was the second book I read about UNIX This explain me the usage of the "sed" (stream editor) and "awk". Also I learn how to write a man page, and of course, the everyday commands in the UNIX environment. 

    This is a UNIX book. 

Brian W. Kernighan-Dennis M. Ritchie 
Linguaggio C(Seconda Edizione) 
Gruppo Jackson Editoriale 1988
    This is the "classical" book on the C language programming. 

    No other words are needed! 

Narain Gehani 
Advanced C: Food For The Educated Palate 
 Computer Science Press 1985

    This was the book that "learn" me, the C language in true. 

    It's offer excellent examples to explain the reader the C structures and other standard C topics. 
     

Douglas A. Young 
Object-Oriented Programming With C++ and OSF /Motif-1995 Prentice Hall 
 Prentice Hall , 1996 
    I read the first edition of this book. X-Window Programming on C, using the Xt-Toolkit. Also in those days there are a Motif version of the book. 

    This is the "updated" version of those book to Motif 2.0 written the C++ classes. 

Daniel Gilly and the staff of O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
UNIX in a Nutshell 
 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc 1986 
    This is one the first "Nutshell" books in the O'Reilly serie. 

    It is a classical one, no other book had been written so complete. 
     
     

     
     
Jessica Perry Hekman and the Staff of O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
Linux in a Nutshell
 O' Really & Associates, Inc 1997 
    This book wants to be the "Linux" version of the "UNIX in a nutshell". It's covers well the new commands with their options, but the UNIX book is a classical one. 
Tim O'Reilly and Grace Todino
uucp Managing and Usenet
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc 1990 
    Probably some UNIX users continue to use, "uucp" programs, but Internet and their possibilities offers a better "universe" of connections. 

    This book was one of the first O'Reilly & Associates, "best sellers". 

Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly 
DOS Meets UNIX
 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc 1987, 1988 
    This little book have no sense in these DOS-Linux days. This book appears when working on UNIX, with DOS programs was a difficult task. In those days are available VP/iX a emulator for UNIX machines. 

    Some year after SUN Microsystems release their WABI (MS-Windows emulator) for SUN workstation. 

    In the 1996 WABI was available for Linux, and there also WINE, a free MS-Windows clone that support also Windows 95 programs emulation. 

    In this days 1999, WMware for Linux is the better solution building a virtual machine that can contain an entire OS: Windows 95, 98 and NT. WMware costs about $299. 

    FTLinuxCourse include a stable version is WINE. Click here to find. 

Edward C.Bailey
Maximum rpm taking the red hat package manager to the limit
Red hat Software, 1997
    This book explain "everything" you need to know about the RPM. 

    FTLinuxCourse include a free copy of the book. Just click here to find it. 

Shishir Gundavaram
CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
 O'Reilly  Associates Inc, 1996

This book explain CGI development in depth: forms, 

In the last two years there are new CGI developments don't included in this book. 

Anyway it is an excellent source to introduce to the topic. 
 
 

Stephen Spainhour & Valeria Quercia
Webmaster in a nutshell 
  O' Really Associates Inc, 1996

Webmaster in a Nutshell is a classical O'Reilly book. Is cover all HTML features, like tables, frames, and special HTML characters.
Naba Barkakati
UNIX WebMaster Bible
 IDG Books, 1996

Its a true Bible about the Web a Web Programming. Includes also Linux and other software.
David Medinets
PHP3 Programming
McGraw-Hill, 2000. 

    The literature about PHP is very small and new. FTLinuxCourse covers an introduction to concepts and techniques.