The Bruce Perens' Open Source Series was a series of books edited by

Bruce Perens Bruce Perens (born around 1958) is an American computer programmer and advocate in the free software movement. He created The Open Source Definition and published the first formal announcement and manifesto of open source. He co-founded the Open ...

as series editor and published by Prentice Hall PTR. Principal topics were

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, w ...

and other

open-source software Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Op ...

. These books were intended for professional software developers, system and network administrators, and power users. The series was published between 2002 and 2006; there were 24 titles in the series. Each book was licensed under the Open Publication License and was made available as a free download several months after publication. It was the first book series to be published under an open content license.

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