Full Circle is an e-magazine run by the Ubuntu community that covers the world of Ubuntu, open source, and technology. The Issue 1 is out now which has various tutorials, interviews, reviews unlike issue 0 which was a special preview edition containing the history of Ubuntu distros.
Currently there is only the english version with other languages coming out soon. This issue includes:
- Installing Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
- Howtos: Linux directory structure, MythTV, Scribus, and more
- Interview with Deluge BitTorrent Client developer
- News, reviews and more.
You can also contribute to the magazine on the wiki into various categories.
How to think like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python is an excellent book for learning Python for the newbies. Here is another book similar to that for those who want to learn Ruby.
How to think like a computer scientist: Learning with Ruby is a book for those newbies who want to learn the basics of Ruby, Objects and how to use them for creating various data structures like linked list, stacks, queues, trees, heaps, maps, etc. It is still under development and will make a good book. Currently there is no downloadable PDF files. But you can wget the html files.
Are you a device driver developer who longs for a proper device driver development kit for Linux? Here is a Linux Device Driver Kit which is released as a CD image for download. This CD image consists of everything a device driver author would wish for - copy of linux kernel source code, pre-built copies of all of the in-kernel docbook documentation for easy browsing, a full copy of the O’Reilly book, “Linux Device Drivers, third edition”.
There are also few things that would be included in the future releases, like
- searchable index of all documentation
- prettier webpages
- more documentation
- possible inclusion of the KernelNewbies wiki.
There is also a CDROM label included in the root directory which could be printed.
Free Software Magazine runs a contest every week, where you got to answer a question and you may get a free book. This week’s book is Just Say No To Microsoft: How To Ditch Microsoft And Why It’s Not As Hard As You Think by Tony Bove. Just visit the site to see the contest details.