Building on the success of the first edition, No
Starch Press is pleased to announce the publication of “The Linux
Cookbook, 2nd edition.” Today’s Linux user base is estimated at over 15
million users. The second edition, nearly 50 percent larger than the
first, will help new and existing users get the most out of Linux.

Linux is cool, but it’s not always well documented. There are tons of inconsistent HOWTO files, out of date FAQs, and programs scattered everywhere. Whenever you want to do anything with Linux, you usually have to read every piece of documentation out there, and basically reverse-engineer a solution.
Many Linux books for non-geeks are usually organized by major system, with a chapter on installation, one for video, one for sound, one for networking, and so on. But what if you want to write a book? Or record an album? Unless you can dig around on the web to find someone else doing the same thing, you are out of luck. Unless, that is, you have The Linux Cookbook.
Building on over 1,500 “recipes” from the first edition, “The Linux
Cookbook, 2nd edition” includes hundreds of new recipes. It is also
distribution neutral, covering all flavors of Linux, including Red Hat,
SuSe, and Debian. The book includes new sections on package management, file conversion, multimedia, working with sound files (including OGG and MP3), Vi text editing, and advanced text manipulation.
To show just what level of text manipulation Linux is capable of, Stutz
designed and typeset “The Linux Cookbook, 2nd edition” using only Linux.
“Everything that you see between the covers of the book was done with
Linux,” he says. “It was typeset with TeX, the free typesetting system
that some say is the best in the world (and comes with Linux). The fonts
are free fonts. What other Linux books can say that?”
Michael Stutz has used Linux exclusively for over a decade. He was the first to apply the “open source” methodology of Linux to non-software works, and was one of the first reporters to cover Linux and the free software movement in the mainstream press. His “Living Linux” column runs on the O’Reilly Network.