Free Linux Books

Here is a list of the Best online books  about Linux in various formats available for free :

• A Byte of VIM by Freeware (PDF)
• A Slackware Desktop Enhancement Guide by Darrell Anderson
• Advanced Linux Programming by Mark L. Mitchell, Alex Samuel, Jeffrey Oldham
• Agustin’s Linux Manuals by Agustin Velasco
• An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi by William Joy, Mark Horton (PDF)
• An Introduction to Tkinter by Fredrik Lundh
• Bash Shell Scripting Tutorial by Steve Bourne
• Basic Graphics Programming With The Xlib Library by Actcom
• Beyond Linux from Scratch by Mark Hymers
• Bodhi Linux 3 for Beginners by Roger Carter
• Brian and Tom’s Linux Book by Brian P. Bilbrey and Tom Syroid.
• Debian GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
• Debian GNU/Linux System Administrator’s Manual by Ardo van Rangelrooij, Tapio Lehtonen and Oliver Elphick.
• Desktop Linux by Wikipedia
• Easy Shell Scripting by Blessen Cherian
• Embedded Software Development with eCos by Anthony J. Massa
• Fedora 10 Installation Guide by Red Hat, Inc.
• Free for All by Peter Wayner
• Gawk: Effective AWK Programming by Arnold Robbins
• Getting Started With Ubuntu by The Ubuntu Manual Team
• Getting started with WebSphere Application Server by Jiang Lin Quan, at al.
• GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool by Gary V. Vaughan, Ben Elliston, Tom Tromey and Ian Lance Taylor
• GNU Emacs Manual by Richard M. Stallman
• GNU/Linux Basic by J.L. Sanchez-Montanes, S.B. Ramos, R.B. Vinas, F.A. Llinas (PDF)
• GNU/Linux Command-Line Tools Summary by Gareth Anderson
• GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
• GTK+ / Gnome Application Development by Havoc Pennington (PDF)
• Guide to IP Layer Network Administration with Linux by Martin A. Brown
• Guide to Managing Media and Public Relations in the Linux Community by Sheldon Rose
• How to build a Linux VPN server using Amazon EC2 and OpenVPN  By Jon Watson
• Into the Core: A look at Tiny Core Linux by Lauri Kasanen
• Introduction to Linux by Brandon Chisham (PDF)
• Introduction to Linux: A Hands on Guide by Machtelt Garrels (PDF)
• Introduction To Linux: A Hands On Guide For Beginners by Machtelt Garrels (HTML)
• Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? by Paul E. McKenney
• Java Application Development on Linux by Carl Albing, Michael Schwarz
• KDE 2.0 Development by David Sweet
• Knowing Knoppix
• Learning Debian GNU/Linux by Bill McCarty
• Learning Old School Linux by Ed Hartnett
• Learning the Korn Shell by Bill Rosenblatt and Arnold Robbins (PDF)
• Life with Qmail by Dave Sill
• Linkers and Loaders by Morgan-Kaufman (PDF)
• Linux 101 Examination by Leading Edge Business Solutions (PDF)
• Linux 102 Examination by Leading Edge Business Solutions (PDF)
• Linux Administration Made Easy by Steve Frampton
• Linux Administrator’s Security Guide by Kurt Seifried
• Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control by Bert Hubert, at al.
• Linux Client Migration Cookbook by IBM.Com/Redbooks (PDF)
• Linux Compute Clusters
• Linux Device Drivers by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman
• Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition by J. Corbet, A. Rubini, G. Kroah-Hartman
• Linux Dictionary by Binh Nguyen (PDF)
• Linux Filesystem Hierarchy by Binh Nguyen (PDF)
• Linux For Newbies by Various authors.
• Linux From Scratch by Gerard Beekmans
• Linux Gazette by Ben Okopnik
• Linux Guide by Joshua Go
• Linux in a Windows World by Roderick W. Smith
• Linux in the Workplace by SSC
• Linux Inside by 0xAX
• Linux Installation and Getting Started by Matt Welsh, at al.
• Linux Internals by Simone Demblon, Sebastian Spitzner (PDF)
• Linux IPv6 HOWTO by Peter Bieringer
• Linux Kernel Crash Book by Igor Ljubuncic
• Linux Kernel in a Nutshell by Greg Kroah-Hartman
• Linux Kernel in a Nutshell by Greg Kroah-Hartman
• Linux Know-How by Epina GMBH
• Linux Network Administrator’s Guide by Olaf Kirch & Terry Dawson
• Linux Network Administrator’s Guide, 2nd Edition by Olaf Kirch & Terry Dawson
• Linux Network HowTo by Neil Gunton
• Linux Newbie Administrator Guide by Stan, Peter and Marie Klimas (PDF)
• Linux Packet Filtering and IPtables by Oskar Andreasson
• Linux Parallel Processing HOWTO by Hank Dietz (PDF)
• Linux Patch Management by Michael Jang (PDF)
• Linux Patch Management: Keeping Linux Systems Up To Date by Michael Jang (PDF)
• Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Exam Prep by IBM
• Linux Quick Fix Notebook by Peter Harrison (PDF)
• Linux Quick Fix Notebook by Peter Harrison (PDF)
• Linux Security Administrator’s Guide by Dave Wreski
• Linux Security for Beginners by Linuxtopia
• Linux Security HOWTO by K. Fenzi, D. Wreski
• Linux Shell Scripting A Beginner’s handbook by Vivek G. Gite
• Linux Sound by Jan Newmarch
• Linux System Administration by Matthew West
• Linux Systems Programming by Jonathan Macey
• LINUX: Rute User’s Tutorial and Exposition by Paul Sheer (PDF)
• Managing Linux Systems with Webmin by Jamie Cameron (PDF)
• Managing Linux Systems with Webmin by Jamie Cameron (PDF)
• Managing Projects with GNU Make, 3rd Edition by Robert Mecklenburg
• Maximum RPM by Edward C. Bailey
• Official Ubuntu Documentation by Ubuntu
• OPEN LOOK User’s Guide by Ian Darwin, Valerie Quercia and Tim O’Reilly
• OpenSUSE Desktop Essentials by Neil Smyth
• Pocket Linux Guide by David Horton
• Programming From The Ground Up by Jonathan Bartlett
• Programming Linux Games by John R. Hall (PDF)
• Puppy Linux by Wikibooks
• Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed by William Ball
• Red Hat Linux Unleashed by Kamran Husain and Tim Parker (PDF)
• Running Linux by Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, Terry Dawson, Lar Kaufman
• Running Linux by Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, and Lar Kaufman (PDF)
• Samba-3 by Example by John H. Terpstra (PDF)
• Securing & Optimizing Linux: The Ultimate Solution by Gerhard Mourani (PDF)
• Securing and Hardening Red Hat Linux Production Systems by Werner Puschitz
• Securing and Optimizing Linux: The Ultimate Solution by Gerhard Mourani (PDF)
• Self-Service Linux: Mastering the Art of Problem Determination by Mark Wilding and Dan Behman (PDF)
• Self-Service Linux: Mastering the Art of Problem Determination by Mark Wilding, Dan Behman (PDF)
• Sidux: Unofficial User Guide by Pawel
• Slackware Linux Essentails, 2nd Edition by D. Cantrell, L. Johnson, A. Hicks, C. Lumens
• Slackware Linux Unleashed by Kamran Husain
• Step by Step Linux Guide by M. B. G. Suranga De Silva
• Step-by-Step Guide to Bodhi Linux by Roger Carter
• Step-by-Step Linux Guide by M. B. G. Suranga De Silva (PDF)
• SUSE Linux Administration Guide by Frank Bodammer, Stefan Dirsch, et al.
• Test Driving Linux by David Brickner
• The Big Online Book of Linux Ada Programming by Ken O. Burtch
• The CTDP Linux User’s Guide by Mark Allen
• The Debian Administrator’s Handbook by Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas.
• The Easiest Linux Guide You’ll Ever Read by Scott Morris
• The Linux Command Line by William E. Shotts, Jr.
• The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use by Michael Stutz
• The Linux Development Platform – Configuring, Using, and Maintaining a Complete Programming Environment by Rafeeq Ur Rehman, Christopher Paul (PDF)
• The Linux Gamers’ HOWTO by Peter Jay Salzman, Frederic Delanoy
• The Linux Kernel by Andries Brouwer
• The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide by Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz (HTML)
• The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide by Peter Jay Salzman (PDF)
• The Linux Starter Pack by Linux Format Magazine
• The Linux System Administrator’s Guide by Lars Wirzenius, at al.
• The Linux Wireless LAN Howto by Jean Tourrilhes
• The Little Book of Semaphores by Allen B. Downey
• The LPIC-2 Exam Prep by Wim-Jan Hilgenbos, Alain van Hoof, Heinrich W. Klöpping, Beno T.J. Mesman, Piet W. Plomp, Willem A. Schreuder
• The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide by John H. Terpstra, Jelmer R. Vernooij
• The Operating Systems Handbook by Bob DuCharme
• The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide by Alistair Ross
• Ubuntu – An Absolute Beginner’s Guide by Courtney Loo
• Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) by Chua Wen Kiat
• Ubuntu Hacks by Jonathan Oxer
• Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference by Keir Thomas
• Ubuntu Server Succinctly by José Roberto Olivas Mendoza
• Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager by Mel Gorman
• Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager by Mel Gorman
• User Mode Linux by Jeff Dike
• Using Samba by R. Eckstein, D. Collier-Brown, P. Kelly
• Wireless LAN Resources For Linux by HP
• X Window Programming by Wikibooks
• X WINDOWS by Dr A D Marshall
• XView Reference Manual by Thomas Van Raalte