Linux is Badass. The E-book.
This is to my knowledge the only free ePub of Bryan Lunduke's Linux is Badass (Slightly More Badass Edition) and best of all the CC-BY-NC-SA license means I can't sell it even if I wanted to. Also this e-book was solely developed on a Mac, partly for my amusement given the book's subject material.
Jokes aside, support Bryan Lunduke via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bryanlunduke
I don't agree with the guy on everything, but he's still a good example of a GNU/Linux community member.
- Better typesetting (than the PDF at least as I haven't seen the physical book or official e-book formats) with initial letters and non-indented starting paragraphs. I hope the typesetting is better when I inevitably grab a physical paperback.
- New better-res covers that use Red Hat's Overpass typeface (and some IBM Plex Mono too). There's a Fedora joke there somewhere.
- DID I MENTION IT'S FREE?! As in beer and price.
I do leave compilation instructions and there no proprietary programming languages or IDEs (cough Xojo cough). Nor fears of vendor lock-in here. My setup for generating an ePub merely uses Python, epubcheck and GNU Bash.
A new ePub file can be made by using the provided CreateE-book.py via installing Python 3 and then running the script on IDLE, Thonny or the python3 CreateE-book.py command on GNU Bash (macOS and GNU/Linux Terminal). The script however does not work with Python 2 and I have no plans to backport.
XHTML, CSS and the metadata.json files can be edited using a text editor such as Atom and Notepad++.
The toc.ncx and content.opf are generated by the CreateE-book.py and shouldn't be edited as they would be overwritten.
If you need to check the e-book yourself run java -jar epubcheck.jar LinuxIsBadass.epub from on the GNU Bash terminal (macOS and GNU/Linux) after moving to the folder that the ePub file is placed in.
I personally combine the commands by running python3 CreateE-book.py && java -jar epubcheck.jar LinuxIsBadass.epub to streamline things.
Book content such as text and images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International or Greater Lunduke License.
Book code such as the .xhtml, .css and .xml files are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).
The CreateE-book.py script designed to be part of my https://github.com/inferno986return/ebookbuild project and is currently licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.
The IDPF's epubcheck-4.0.2 tool is licensed under Apache License 2.0, Mozilla Public License and BSD 3-clause License.
