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What free ebooks do you recommend to learn more about Ubuntu?

One book per answer, please - vote answers up/down as you feel appropriate. If you feel the book is biased towards/good for particular tasks, please mention them.

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Getting Started with Ubuntu (The Ubuntu Manual)

Bash - Guide for beginners (On the command line used in Linux, PDF)

Linux - Inside the boot process (IBM manual in HTML and PDF)

Linux - Network Administration guide

And if you're a masochist, don't forget the ultimate manual for Linux: Linux - Advanced Administration (Kernel, local/network/server admin, ... 545 pages of knowledge! :-))

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  • Thanks. If you know about more such books, please list them here.
    – User
    Jul 31, 2010 at 17:09
  • Sorry I duped this, I didn't recognize that title. You might want to add "(The Ubuntu Manual)" beside "Getting Started with Ubuntu". I deleted my post. Thanks for the heads-up! Jul 31, 2010 at 22:01
  • The Ubuntu Manual is good for new users and people who want to learn more about Ubuntu. Aug 1, 2010 at 17:35
  • Can someone update the link for Bash - Guide for beginners?
    – Sadegh
    Jan 28, 2016 at 9:17
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The Ubuntu Wikibook.

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  • I think this book needs improvement. We must try and improve it.
    – User
    Oct 19, 2010 at 5:51
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The guys who wrote the Server Documentation in the help have done a great job as well: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/index.html, it is also available in PDF. The good thing is this documentation gets updated every release by the Documentation team

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  • Yes, just change the release number in the link to get the latest version.
    – snth
    Aug 7, 2011 at 12:41
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    dead link, please update
    – Sadegh
    Jan 28, 2016 at 9:15
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"A Complete Beginner’s Manual for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)" is available at

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/download-free-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx-pdf-guide.html

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It is for Ubuntu 9.10,but still relevant..

Karmic Guide

For Ubuntu 10.04, you grab Ubuntu Manual from

Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04

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There is one in German available by Galileo Computing for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. It can also be downloaded and purchased as a real book. Most of the stuff in there is targeted to beginners.

There are also some videos available for the book, but they are outdated by now.

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