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General Principles

gnu.org. Learn what 'free software', 'copyleft', the 'GPL', and other terms actually refer to. Home of the Free Software Definition. Wondered why people are always mentioning 'free as in beer' and 'free as in freedom'?
Free Software Foundation. Read about the philosophy behind free software. The cutting edge of this movement.
OpenSource.org. Home of Open Source Definition. You can also find great things like Peru Reaction to MS. Peruvian Congressman refutes Microsoft's "Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt" (F.U.D.) concerning free and open source software. An absolute must read.
NoSoftwarePatents.com. Innovation in the arts rests on access to what was done before. Software is no different.
GrokLaw.net. Legal area of Open Source software, sure to be increasingly important as MS etc begin to realize that they can't compete head to head, and retreat to legal threats like their SCO funding.

Technical Components and Publishers

pathname.com. Full explanation of the various file system components, /var, /dev, /usr, /home, and so on.
ss64.com. Full listing of command line arguments.
KernelTrap.org. Forums, serious kernel discussions.
O'Reilly.com. O'reilly is the home of the very best open source materials in the print world. They sponsor Larry Walls, maintainer of the PERL project, among many other things. For example, Running Linux. A superb introduction to Linux. Available online on that page, but I prefer print.
Technical Explanations of Linux features: filesystem, kernel, processes

Linux Forums

Linux & Open Source news

Linux Weekly News. LWN is quite good, they put out a weekly newsletter that you have to pay to receive, but they post it the next week for free. This is pretty serious Linux news and analysis.
osDir.com. Open source applications, Linux, and news. From O'Reilly Press, so you know it's going to be worth reading.
LinuxToday.com
NewsForge.com
LinuxTimes.net
Linux.com
OsNews.com
LinuxJournal.com. Linux Journal has pretty good original content, a lot of the other linux sites just have links to stories.

Linux Howtos and FAQs

Desktops.Linux.com
HowTos.Linux.com
Linux Administration Made Easy. Includes installation, backups [that's important!!], configuration etc.
Linux-Mag.com. Good overview and tutorial type articles. Check out their GURU GUIDANCE for in depth tutorials.

Influential People :: Interviews, writings
Linus Torvalds

12-21-04. Sun's Solaris, general open source development, good interview.
11-12-04. Covers SCO, MS, OSDL. More here.
2-2-04. SCO.
10-11-04. Covers his move to Portland, Oregon, and working with OSDL.
10-30-03. The future of Linux. This is a fairly in depth interview, deals with the kernel development process etc.
Sep. 97. 'The Pragmatist of Free Software'

Eric Raymond:

The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Probably the most influential essay written on Open Source Software.
Homesteading the Noosphere.
A Brief History of Hackerdom
The Microsoft Halloween Memo. The memo MS is trying to make you forget ever was written. Created by internal engineers who were capable of at least some objectivity, at least for MS types.
Full Directory of Eric Raymond commented Halloween memos
Eric Raymond's home page

Richard Stallman

Paul Graham

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