UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook 5th Edition, Aug 2017 by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, Ben Whaley
The latest edition of the world’s best-selling UNIX system administration book has been made even better by adding coverage of the leading Linux distributions: Ubuntu, openSUSE, and RHEL.
Linux in a Nutshell 6th Edition, Sept 2009
A command reference for Linux, find the command syntax you need. Also UNIX in a Nutshell, Fourth edition (2008) by Arnold Robbins
the standard desktop reference. (it even inspired a spoof cover)
bash Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for bash Users O'Reilly Nov 2017 by Carl Albing, JP Vossen
A substantial trove of tips and useful scripts,
covers bash 3.2
Essential System Administration, Third Edition Aug 2002 by Æleen Frisch
Describes Unix tools in the context of a system administrator's job. More than just covering syntax, tools and concepts, this book shows how to use administrative tools intelligently and efficiently.
UNIX Power Tools by Jerry D Peak, Tim O'Reilly et al
Useful tricks and techniques, each chapter describes the different ways of performing a task. e.g. the page on 'Wildcards' has 10 ways to select a group of files - only two of which involve the grep command. [Archive of shell scripts]
1200 pages.
Shell Programming in Unix, Linux and OS X, Fourth Edition (Paperback)
by Stephen Kochan, Patrick Wood
Detailed coverage of shell programming: regular expressions, the kernel and utilities.
Beyond grep - A grep-like tool, aimed at programmers.
AntiWord - Cross-platform MS Word reader.
Aptana - HTML and CSS editor (Dreamweaver replacement).
Asunder - Audio CD ripper and encoder for Linux.
Audacity - CD Ripper, Sound editor.
AutoFsck - Configure boot disc checks (Ubuntu).
cabextract - Free Software for extracting Microsoft cabinet files.
Clonezilla - Partition and disk imaging/cloning program.
CSV kit - Utilities for working with CSV files.
Dar - Disk Archive/backup.
Easy Tag - Tag editor for MP3, Ogg Vorbis files.
Fanout - Run a command on multiple machines.
Firewalls: Easy Firewall | Shoreline Firewall | GuardDog | Firestarter
GNU Parted | Partimage - partition managers.
Gftp multithreaded ftp
HTML Tidy - Check and fix HTML and XML files.
htop - an interactive process viewer.
i3 window manager
Inkscape - Vector Graphics (Illustrator).
ImageMagick - Edit/Convert bitmap images(PNG, JPEG, GIF) on the command line (scripts).
k3b.org - The CD/DVD Kreator.
KNode newsreader - for K desktop.
KVM - Virtualization software (Kernel-based Virtual Machine.)
K3b - The CD/DVD Kreator for Linux - optimized for KDE.
Micro - Terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive.
Midnight Commander - File Manager.
MPlayer - DVD and media player.
Network Monitoring Tools - SLAC.
Partition Image - re-image OS.
PhotoRec - Data recovery software - hard disk, CD-ROM & Memory Cards.
PDFtk - Command-line tool for processing PDFs.
PostgreSQL - Database.
Performance monitoring tools: dstat, htop, ifstat, iftop, sysstat
rDesktop -
RDP client for Windows (Terminal Services).
Sectools.org - Top 100 Network Security Tools.
Shotcutapp - free, open source, cross-platform video editor.
SoX - Sound processing command line utility.
TeamViewer - Screen sharing/Remote control (Mac/PC/Linux).
Terminator - Gnome Terminal management.
Textadept - cross-platform text editor.
thttpd - HTTP Web Server.
VLC Media Player
WebP utilities - encode/decode WebP animated images, Google.
Wink - Capture screenshots/video, add help text.
Xfce - Lightweight window manager.
xmms - Winamp clone.
GNU FTP Sites - GNU programs and Manuals.
