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FREE AS IN FREEDOM:
& THE FREE
SOFTWARE
FOUNDATION
personalities that every user of Free
Software should know about, for without
him there might not even be such a thing
as Free Software. It was the GNU project,
which he started some 20 years ago, that
made it possible for Free kernels like
Linux to become the Free operating
system that we know and love, or at least
read about.
The 240 pages in this book go a long
way to uncovering details about the man,
giving answers to the question “what
makes the man tick”, as well as giving an
insight into the ethics of the ‘hacking
culture’ of the 1970s from which the GNU
project grew.
There is a nine page index allowing you
to revisit the passages you’ve found most
interesting and, even more usefully, the 13
chapters in this book have footnotes
detailing reference material used by the
author, enabling the committed Stallman
researcher to follow up if they wish. The
book also explains, and is published under,
the GNU Free Documentation Licence,
which is only fitting for a book about
freedom.
Author Sam Wiliams
Publisher O’Reilly
Price
£15.95
ISBN
0-596-00287-4
THE JOY OF LINUX
illustrated with cartoons, some of which
are just begging to be copied and pinned
to the fridge to be read over a morning
coffee. What better way to start the day
than with the warm fuzzy feeling that you
are among the righteous and chosen ones
in your belief of Linux?
Despite its obvious American bias (the
chapter on the pros and cons of major
distributions did not even touch on SuSE)
the book gives a very fair overview of the
current situation of Linux. An obligatory
chapter covers the history and
development of the operating system
followed by more interesting anecdotes on
using Linux for the first time, and how to
cope. Other chapters cover the internal
arguments in the Linux community,
security, games, hardware, how to dual
boot a machine and women in computing
(yes really, this book is very PC in a non-
computing sense).
A very comprehensive list of resource
sites and books would be useful to anyone
researching Linux or needing help in
starting to use it and the final appendix
contains the full GNU Public Licence
should you have a burning desire to read it
at any time. The authors do have certain
prejudices but they are upfront about
them, (If you are a vi user you should skip
parts of chapter four) and they are
prepared to admit that people hold other
views. If you want some enjoyable bedtime
reading to make you feel good about
using Linux then this is the book for you.
read. It’s amusingly written and well
Author M Hall & B Proffitt
Publisher Prima Tech
Price
£21.99
ISBN
0-7615-3151-3
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LINUX MAGAZINE
Issue 20 • 2002
RICHARD STALLMAN
R ichard Stallman is one of the
T his is one book that really is a joy to
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