Please send me your preferred free book/s that you want to see in the Indian market, preferably with a link to the pdf file, title ASAP. Me and Anand Sharma are going to meet Shroff on friday afternoon. He is very keen to publish our books. Now I want to know the priorities.
Nagarjuna G. said on Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:55:55AM +0530,:
Please send me your preferred free book/s that you want to see in the Indian market, preferably with a link to the pdf file, title ASAP.
1) Free Software Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
already available at GLUG-Trichy http://glugt.linuxisle.com/store.shtml
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/rms-essays http://notabug.com/2002/rms-essays.pdf
2) Software Freedom: An Introduction by Robert J. Chassell (now in draft stage) http://www.gnu.org/software/softfree/
3) Emacs Manual by RMS http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/
4) LaTeX Primer by tugindia http://www.tug.org.in/tutorials.html
5) Programming in Emacs Lisp (Second Edition) by Robert J. Chassell http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/
6) How to think like a computer scientist (python version) http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCS/
7) GTK+/Gnome Application Development by Havoc Pennington http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/
-- ~vimal
Nagarjuna G. said on Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:55:55AM +0530,:
Please send me your preferred free book/s that you want to see in the Indian market, preferably with a link to the pdf file, title ASAP.
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide : An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting by Mendel Cooper <thegrendel@theriver.com mailto:thegrendel@theriver.com> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.pdf
Various GCC Manuals at http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/onlinedocs/
PostgreSQL Documentation : http://www.postgresql.org Note extracted from PostgreSQL Copyright: Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose, without fee, and without a written agreement is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph and the following two paragraphs appear in all copies.
Please request the publisher to print the text of the GPL and FDL, that are commonly used, in the Appendix. It will be very good if a cd including the sources and other reference material is attached to the book.