index of information and documentation of interest to those who now use or are considering using the Linux operating system on a notebook or laptop computer.
You'll find plain-English information here about using Linux on a personal computer or on a shell account provided by your ISP. After a brief history and overview of Linux, you'll find a concise and occasionally light-hearted treatment of these topics.
designed to be used by Unix distribution developers, package developers, and system implementors. Intended to be a reference, not a tutorial on how to manage a Unix filesystem or directory hierarchy.
explores a novel interface to a system administration task. Instead of creating an interface de novo for the task, the author modified a popular computer game, Doom, to perform useful work.
Having only the services you need running will make your system faster, more stable and secure. So the first thing you need to do after installing a Linux distribution is to manually edit the list of enabled services.
This document explores methods for squeezing excess bytes out of simple programs. (Of course, the more practical purpose of this document is to describe a few of the inner workings of the ELF file format and the Linux operating system. But hopefully you can also learn something about how to make really teensy ELF executables in the process.)