Hi. I just wanted to see if anyone is intrested in starting a linux book club with me. Here is a list of the books I plan to read over the course of the next two years:

1. The C programming language, 2nd ed, Brian W. Khernigan, Dennis M. Ritchie, 238 pages

2. Programmer's guide to nCurses, Dan Gookin, 579 pages

3. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols, W. Richard Stevens, 600 pages

4. Linux Network Administrator's Guide, 2nd Edition, By Olaf Kirch & Terry Dawson, 360 pages

5. The Definitive guide to linux network programming, Keir Davis, John W. Turner and Nathan Yocom, 402 pages

6. The Linux System Administrator's, Guide Version 0.9, Lars Wirzenius, Joanna Oja, Stephen Stafford, Alex Weeks, 130 pages

7. Bash Guide for Beginners, Machtelt Garrels, 173 pages

8. Advanced Bash-Scripting Guidem, An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting, Mendel Cooper, 865 pages

9. Volume One: Xlib Programming Manual for Version 11 of the X Window System, 513 pages

10. Volume Four: XToolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual, Adrian Nye and Tim O'Reilly, 582 pages

11. Volume Eight: X Window System Administrator's Guide, Linda Mui and Eric Pearce, 394 pages

12. The C++ Programming Language Third Edition, Bjarne Stroustrup, 923 pages

13. Foundations of GTK+ Development, Andrew Krause, 655 pages

14. Beginning Linux Programming, 4th edition, Neil Matthew and Richard Stones, 819 pages

15. The Definitive Guide to Image Magick, Michael Still, 361 pages

16. Apache The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition, Ben Laurie, Peter Laurie, 600 pages

17. Programming PHP, 2nd Edition, Rasmus Lerdorf, Peter MacIntyre, Kevin Tatroe, 528 pages

18. Managing and Using MySQL, 2nd Edition, Randy J. Jarger, George Reese, Tim King, Hugh E. Williams, 448 pages

19. Web Database Application with PHP and MySQL, 2nd Edition, David Lane, Hugh E. Williams, 592 pages

20. HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th edition, Chuck Musciano & Bill Kennedy, 449 pages

21. Object Oriented JavaScript, Stoyan Stefanov, 534 pages

22. Real World Linux Security: Intrusion Prevention, Detection, and Recovery, Second Edition, Bob Toxen, 840 pages

23. Securing Debian Manual, Version: 3.13, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, 264 pages

Ok, so I'm thinking these books should cover pretty much most aspects of linux hacking, aspects such as very basic programming, system administration, GUI programming, network programming/configuration, website programming, and security, in that order.

The whole collection is about 10615 pages long and it would take around 2.17 years to read it at a speed of 5 pages per hour, 2 hours during week days and 4 during the holidays and weekends. That is, 10 pages per weekday and 20 per saturday/sunday/holiday. Ofcourse, ideally, you would have to understand everything in those pages.

That's where the linux book club comes in: my idea would be to read during the week, and then e-mail eachother on saturdays regarding the next subjects:

0. Questions
1. Which part of what we read was the most intresting to us
2. Which part was the most challenging
3. Which was the most useful
4. What ideas we have for using our new and wicked hacking abilities
5. Suggestions to expand the book collection
6. Etcetera

The only rule would be to, ofcourse, keep it strictly about linux.

If you are intrested in joining the linux book club send me a private message with your e-mail and I will get back at the bunch of you this saturday to inform you about my suggestions for our first activities.

By sending me an e-mail addres you would, ofcourse, agree to have that e-mail shown to evey other member who sends me their e-mail, cause what I'm gonna do is send e-mails to each one of you with a list of everyone's e-mail. So, if you want, you can make a new e-mail address exclusively for the club. Actually, I would suggest you do this because my plan for this club is for us to collectively write a very long e-mail in which we would reply to eachother, it would be like having a very private forum of our own. This e-mail would grow very long over time if alot of people join so that's why you might want to make a new e-mail account for this.

I'm currently around the half of the first book, so I have a little advantage, but I'm not cocky, I know a lot of you are probably faster readers than me.

Please join! I'm a little bored of studying all by myself and would like to make some study buddies.

I would, but between knowing most of that stuff, and I would rather just teach myself, I will pass. Sounds cool though in a sense.