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24 alternatives to The Official Ubuntu Book
A Great Way To Get You Started With Ubuntu
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Official Ubuntu Book launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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TLDR: I wrote a handbook for the Linux command line. 120 pages in PDF. Updated for 2025. Pay what you want. A few years back I wrote an ebook about the Linux command line. Instead of focusing on a specific shell, paraphrasing manual pages, or providing long repetitive explanations, the idea was to create a modern guide that would help readers to understand the command line in the practical sense, cover the most common things people use the command line for, and do so without wasting the readers' time. The book contains material on terminals, shells (compatible with both Bash and Zsh),…
2025 · commandline.stribny.name · its alternatives →
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Getting Real▲234The smarter way to build web apps. A free book by 37signals.
2015 · its alternatives →
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Essential advice on building and running a startup
2015 · its alternatives →
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https://urbook.fordes.de/ …a free/libré book about UX research with qualitative methods on motivations, activities written for UX researchers, UX designers and product managers. I have been writing on this book since about 2010 and did a large rewrite during the first half of 2022. (I initally planned this with a bigger tech publisher). This is the link to the full book for online reading: https://jdittrich.github.io/userNeedResearchBook/ (it’s one long page, so it might take a bit to load)
2022 · its alternatives →
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Free book for founders and sales reps selling to large orgs
2017 · its alternatives →
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Tao of React▲144A book about React project architecture and component design
2021 · its alternatives →
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Hello. This year I dived into UI/UX area and at the same time I work as a web developer. I sincerely love making good UI. But at my full time job it's not always possible due to different reasons =\ So I've been posting random UI/UX staff on Twitter, then I made a free book that had 50 tips (posted it here as well). I decided to finish this year by collecting everything I learned and here it is: https://akcium.gumroad.com/l/ui-ux-tips. This time it's a paid one. But, you can check ~20 pages of it, just go to…
2021 · its alternatives →
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No-fluff guide to building a collaborative development team
2016 · its alternatives →
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For devs, designers, freelancers, makers, & entrepreneurs.
2016 · its alternatives →
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Everything you need to setup your own Ubuntu Server
2017 · its alternatives →
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Free eBook on cross platform mobile app development
2016 · its alternatives →
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Official guide to the hottest global startup scenes
2017 · its alternatives →
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What programmers need to know about web servers.
2015 · its alternatives →
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Cheat sheet style guide to user onboarding for startups
2016 · its alternatives →
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