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Recommended reading to better understand Unix/Linux internals

I've worked on *nix environments for the last four years as a application developer (mostly in C). Please suggest some books/blogs etc. for improving my *nix internals knowledge.
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What is the best book to learn Linux system programming?

I am trying to learn Linux system programming, which is the best book to learn this?
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Looking for an old classical Unix toolkit textbook

I am looking for a book about the Unix command-line toolkit (sh, grep, sed, awk, cut, etc.) that I read some time ago. It was an excellent book, but I totally forgot its name. The great thing about this specific book was the running example. It…
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What do all the pictures on the front of the "Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook" represent?

I'm a newcomer to Unix and Linux, and I've been trying to get up to speed on everything. One of the guides I've used is the "Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook" It's a pretty great book, and I'm enjoying reading through it, but I'm really…
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs book

I would really like to obtain a book on Plan 9's design and ethos. Do such things exist? Anybody have a recommendation? (Asking here on the basis that Plan 9 was once meant to be Unix's successor, AIUI)
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Good introduction to Subversion for inexperienced users?

Can you suggest a good introduction to Subversion for UNIX (or Mac OS X) users? It can assume familiarity with basic command-line usage, but not any advanced topics (with bash scripting counting as "advanced usage" here...) Ideally, the guide…
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Is the Unix Power Tools book still relevant today?

I was wondering if the Unix Power Tools book, Third edition, is still relevant today? I want to order it but I am afraid it contains only outdated material. If so, is there a recent similar book?
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What are all the items on the cover of the "Linux Administration Handbook"?

As I mentioned in What do all the pictures on the front of the "Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook" represent? I'm fairly new to Linux and Unix. @jasonwryan provided an excellent link to a blog that describes all of the items on the front…
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Good free intro to Ubuntu?

So a friend asked me if I knew of a good Ubuntu tutorial or book. I remembered one from a while ago: the Ubuntu Pocket Guide, but it turns out it's from 2008, so it's not really ideal any more. Are there any others out there that are updated for…
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Mono book recommendations

Does anyone know if there are any upcoming book releases for Mono/GTK#? The only book I could find on Amazon with a decent rating is over 6 years old.
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Is there an equivalent book/resource to "The Linux Programming Interface" for FreeBSD?

Most of you here are probably aware of the famous The Linux Programming Interface, which presents a truly masterful guide to the Linux and general POSIX APIs. I know that much of the general POSIX knowledge can be applied to all Unix/Unix-like…
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good unix troubleshooting book

I've been trying to learn *nix and I think I'm doing pretty good as far as basic commands, and I think I understand a lot of the "monitoring" type commands etc... in short, I think I'm doing okay with syntax type stuff. And doing stuff like setup of…
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Recommendation of books to setup and admin a web server in Linux

I am going to setup and admin a web server in Ubuntu Linux distribution. I installed it by default setting, and seems all works fine, and now I need to setup it to be a virtual web host server, mainly I will create more accounts and for each…
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Unix Version 7 'learn' command (CAI) - additional configuration necessary?

I'm going through the 'Unix Programming Environment' classic by Kernighan and Pike. I discovered there was a very interesting command written by Kernighan and someone else called learn for computer aided instruction on Unix subjects like editing,…
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Book or online article on analysis and tuning Linux system performance

I am looking for a good book or online article on analysis and tuning Linux system performance. So far I've found openSUSE 12.2 System Analysis and Tuning Guide which looks promising. Any other recommendations?
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