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Linux Device Drivers, 2nd ed. Released Under GNU FDL

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Rosco P. Coltrane writes: "I don't know if this is old news, but I've just noticed that the "Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition" book by Alessandro Rubini & Jonathan Corbet has been published under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.1 by O'Reilly." Making the entire book available is a nice gesture by O'Reilly. And anything that helps get more device drivers written is a plus in my book... We reviewed the first edition, but obviously there have been one or two tiny changes since then.

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  1. Other nice free books by RPoet · · Score: 4

    Andamooka has a nice amount of books freely available online, and they're annotatable too. Worth checking out.
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  2. This is excellent. by MartinG · · Score: 5

    I was going to buy the first edition some time ago, but I couldn't find it in the local book store and I don't like to buy books of this nature without having a quick read first.

    The online availability of this edition solves this for me. I spent 10 minutes reading the html version before I realised its exactly the book I need, and the next five minutes ordering it online.

    Well done the authors and may you sell many more copies for having the insight to make it freely available online.

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  3. another very good FDL'ed book for programmers. by Kunta+Kinte · · Score: 4

    Another very good FDL'ed book is the "GNU automake, autoconf and libtool" book written by Gary V. Vaughan, Ben Elliston, Tom Tromey and Ian Lance Taylor.

    This book has helped me a lot in understanding the interaction between automake, autoconf, and libtool. The GNU manual for these tools are excellent, but the book does a great job in showing how the three interaction. I'd say this is a must read for beginning outsource programmers.

    The hardcopy's ISBN is 1578701902 and can be found at bn.com

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  4. Drivers for newbies? by PlebianX · · Score: 4

    It seems that a lot of people really like this book, and I'm definately going to skim the on-lin version to see if I want to buy it, but I wonder how hard is it for someone with intermediatte experience coding to learn to make drivers? Anyone able to share their ordeals with it?