Textbooks etc. appear on the course page.
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These are links to the University of Washington in Seattle so you can ignore everything about UW NetID accounts, Uniform Access, C&C, and almost everything about their setup for printing, online help etc. Also, they use a different Unix flavor than Linux and their default shell is csh while ours is bash. Nevertheless there is much useful material here.
This table of contents page contains all the links below and many others as well:
Here is their overview:
These reference pages are particularly handy:
These course notes from UW are tailored for system administrators, but some material is useful for all users:
A very brief summary (surrounded by lots of CNN advertising):
A brief summary, in Sections 1.2.2.1 -- 1.2.2.5 only from this book excerpt:
The home page for one of the original Unix creators, with links to some classic early papers, old photos, and other fascinating artifacts:
The story of Berkeley Unix, which built Internet capability into Unix, and spawned both the commerical Sun Microsystems and Free BSD:
The history and heartfelt philosophy of the GNU project, which launched the free software movement and created much of the software used in Linux and other free Unix-like systems:
Some notes on the creation of the Linux kernel, which was combined with GNU software to form a complete Unix-like operating system:
The work continues. This interview describes the Gnome project, which provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to Linux: