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What happens while your Linux system boots up?
When did Linus Torvalds start writing the Linux kernel?
I really, really, really wanted to answer 1952.
Pwning Tomorrow: An Anthology of Short Fiction from the Electronic Frontier
This book, published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and released on their 25th anniversary, is a collection of short stories from several authors including Neil Gaiman, Bruce Sterling, Cory Doctorow, and tons more. The stories chronicle many different adventures about the future of “technology over the next 25 years and beyond, imagining the consequences of everything from abusive intellectual property lawsuits to out-of-control viral marketing; from over-protective intelligent fridges to violently loyal cyber-pets.” (Maass, 2015)
You can donate to the EFF and download the book from here: https://supporters.eff.org/donate/pwning-tomorrow. The book is also available for free download.
A Brief Guide to Starting Your Career as a Linux Sysadmin
This is an ebook from the Linux Foundation that tells of exactly what the title says. You can download it for free from here: https://training.linuxfoundation.org/sysadmin-it-career-guide.
Devotion to Duty
“The weird sense of duty really good sysadmins have can border on the sociopathic, but it’s nice to know that it stands between the forces of darkness and your cat blog’s servers.” https://xkcd.com/705/