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Inter@ctive Week: Andover.Net And iBooks Open Online Linux Bookstore

“Visitors to www.andover.net can click on the URL
linux.ibooks.com and go to the part of the ibooks.com site
dedicated to Linux users. Linux documentation is available from the
Linux Documentation Project as well as free Linux reference works,
including at the moment, The Linux Systems Administrator’s Guide
and the Linux Kernel Module Programmers Guide.”

“Ibooks.com offers digital books for sale from major publishers.
After purchase, it stores them on a visitor’s defined bookshelf,
where they may be read by visiting the site at any time as online
references. Publishers involved include Coriolis, John Wiley,
Sam’s, Sybex and Que.”

“Among the 12 open source online resources, in addition to
the Linux Documentation Project, are: the Gnu/Linux operating
system user guides and HowTos and the World Wide Web’s Request for
Comment (RFC) documents.”

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