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• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (electronic edition, c2016), by Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau (PDF with commentary at Wisconsin)
• The Operating Systems Handbook: UNIX, OpenVMS, OS/400, VM and MVS (New York: McGraw-Hill, c1994), by Bob DuCharme (PDF files with commentary at snee.com)
• Operating Systems and Middleware: Supporting Controlled Interaction (revised electronic edition, 2016), by Max Hailperin (multiple formats with commentary at gustavus.edu)
• Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS Basics (third edition; Poughkeepsie, NY: IBM International Technical Support Organization, 2011), by Mike Ebbers, John Kettner, Wayne O'Brien, and Bill Ogden (PDF at ibm.com)
• Linux Kernel in a Nutshell (c2007), by Greg Kroah-Hartman (PDF and Docbook files at kroah.com)
• Self-Service Linux: Mastering the Art of Problem Determination (2006), by Mark Wilding and Dan Behman (PDF at pearsoncmg.com)
• Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler (electronic edition, 2005), by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht (PDF in Switzerland)
• Managing Linux systems With Webmin: System Administration and Module Development (2004), by Jamie Cameron (PDF at pearsoncmg.com)
• The Linux Development Platform (c2003), by Rafeeq Ur Rehman and Christopher Paul (PDF at pearsoncmg.com)
• The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use (original "design science license" edition, 2001), by Michael Stutz (HTML with commentary at dsl.org)
• Linux Network Administrator's Guide (second edition, 2000), by Olaf Kirch and Terry Dawson (illustrated HTML at oreilly.com)
• Linux Network Administrator's Guide (online first edition, 1996), by Olaf Kirch (HTML at tldp.org)
• The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994), ed. by Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise, and Steven Strassman (PDF at mit.edu)
• The Linux Command Line (fifth Internet edition, 2019), by William E. Shotts (PDF with commentary at linuxcommand.org and Sourceforge)
• Capability-Based Computer Systems (1984), by Henry M. Levy (PDF files at Washington)
• Inside Atari DOS (1982), by Bill Wilkinson (HTML at atariarchives.org)
• Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference (2009), by Keir Thomas (PDF with commentary at ubuntupocketguide.com)
• Ubuntu Hacks (c2006), by Jonathan Oxer, Kyle Rankin, and Bill Childers (illustrated HTML at oreilly.com)
• Learning Debian GNU/Linux (first edition, 1999), by Bill McCarty (HTML at oreilly.com)
• In the Beginning Was the Command Line, by Neal Stephenson (zipped text at cryptonomicon.com)
• An Operating Systems Vade Mecum (second edition), by Raphael A. Finkel (PDF at UKY)
• Slackware Linux Essentials (electronic edition), by Alan Hicks, Chris Lumens, David Cantrell, and Logan Johnson (multiple formats at slackbook.org)
• Advanced Linux Programming, by Mark Mitchell, Jeffrey Oldham, and Alex Samuel (PDF files with commentary at github.io)
• The Art of Unix Programming, by Eric S. Raymond (HTML with commentary at catb.org)
• Free for All: How Linux and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans, by Peter Wayner (PDF with commentary at wayner.org)
• GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool, by Gary V. Vaughan, Ben Elliston, Tom Tromey, and Ian Lance Taylor (HTML with commentary at sourceware.org)
• Linux Quick Fix Notebook, by Peter Harrison (PDF at pearsoncmg.com)
• Programming the Be Operating System, by Dan Parks Sydow (PDF files at oreilly.com)
• The Complete FreeBSD (electronic edition, based on the 4th print edition), by Greg Lehey (gzipped PDF and Postscript with commentary at lemis.com)
• Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage, by John Goerzen and Ossama Othman
  • HTML at newriders.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Getting Started With Ubuntu (current and prior electronic editions; title may vary based on Ubuntu version), by Ubuntu Manual Team (PDF files at ubuntu-manual.org)
• The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide, ed. by John H. Terpstra and Jelmer R. Vernooij (PDF at pearsoncmg.com)
• Programming From the Ground Up, by Jonathan Bartlett, ed. by Dominick Bruno
  • version 1.0: PDF at gnu.org
  • multiple versions with commentary at nongnu.org
• Ubuntu Server Guide, by Ubuntu Documentation Project (HTML at ubuntu.com)
• Version Control With Subversion (electronic editions), by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, and C. Michael Pilato (HTML and PDF with commentary at red-bean.com)

• Trusted Product Evaluation Questionnaire (version 2, 1992), by National Computer Security Center (U.S.) (HTML at usmc.mil)

• Learning Debian GNU/Linux (first edition, 1999), by Bill McCarty (HTML at oreilly.com)
• The Debian Linux User's Guide (second edition, c1998), by Dale Scheetz (HTML at linuxmafia.com)
• The Debian Administrator's Handbook, by Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas (multiple formats with commentary at debian-handbook.info)
• Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage, by John Goerzen and Ossama Othman
  • HTML at newriders.com
  • Gutenberg text

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Small Memory Software: Patterns for Systems with Limited Memory (free online edition, with supplementary material; c2004), by James Noble and Charles Weir (PDF files with commentary at smallmemory.com)

• Trusted Product Evaluation Questionnaire (version 2, 1992), by National Computer Security Center (U.S.) (HTML at usmc.mil)

• Compiler Construction (electronic edition, 2017), by Niklaus Wirth (PDF files in Switzerland)
• Basics of Compiler Design (anniversary edition; c2010), by Torben Æ. Mogensen (PDF with commentary in Denmark)
• Compiling Scala for the Java Virtual Machine (ca. 2005), by Michel Schinz (PDF in Switzerland)
• Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler (electronic edition, 2005), by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht (PDF in Switzerland)
• TACOS: A Table-Driven Compiler System (UI Dept. of Computer Science report #325; 1969), by John Lawrence Gaffney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Compiler Design: Theory, Tools, and Examples (C++ and Java editions; updated from 1994 original), by Seth Bergmann (PDF and source code files at rowan.edu)
• Compilers and Compiler Generators: An Introduction with C++, by Pat Terry (HTML, PDF and Postscript with commentary at Rhodes University)
• The GENTLE Compiler Construction System, by Friedrich Wilhelm Schroer (HTML at compilertools.net)

• Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation (c1999), by Neil D. Jones, Carsten K. Gomard, and Peter Sestoft (PDF and Postscript with commentary in Denmark)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.