Andamooka's New Online Books Include Cathedral&Bazaar and Underground

Andamooka has added four new open content books to its online collection. The entire collection is available for reading, annotation, and discussion.

The Cathedral & The Bazaar is a well-known collection of essays on Open Source by Eric S. Raymond.

Underground, by Suelette Dreyfus, is a novel based on the true stories of the "hacker" (perhaps "cracker" is the right word) underground. It has recently been released online under an open-content style license to Project Gutenberg and Andamooka.

Linux Newbie Administrator's Guide, by
Stan and Peter Klimas, is an introduction to Linux written by authors who have recently learned the OS themselves, so they understand what newbies are going through.

Squid: A User's Guide, by Oskar Pearson, is the manual and guide for the Squid Internet proxy-cache.

About Andamooka
Andamooka is a collection of support/development communities for open content books.

Andamooka's public forum helps bring together people with common interests -- after all, they're all reading the same book! -- to assist each other in studying, analyzing, or putting into practice the content of the book.

The Open Content, GNU Free Documentation, and similar Licenses have the potential to dramatically change the way a book is used and received by its readers, and Andamooka is continually being
developed to further take advantage of these licenses.

At Andamooka we want to get active readers together to discuss and modify the work openly -- in a public forum -- so that issues of fact, clarity, and content can be addressed and correct, useful additions can be made to the main work. Because the licenses are relatively unrestrictive, the modified work can then be redistributed so that each reader can benefit from the work of the entire commmunity. In this model, "open" books become dynamic, as are typically the topics they cover, and can be constantly current.