Below are some documents and books for offline reading. They are all allowed to be freely distributed, so therefore they are included with Tinux.

	Command Line
	The GNU ed line editor	by the Free Software Foundation	First, here is the official manual for the current iteration of ed, the line editor, which can be traced all the way back to the first version of Unix in 1969.
	GNU sed, a stream editor	by Ken Pizzini, Paoli Bonzini, Jim Meyering, and Assaf Gordon	Another GNU manual.
	GNU Awk	by Diane Barlow Close, Arnold D. Robbins, Paul H. Rubin, Richard Stallman, and Piet van Oostrum	Edition 1.0 , December 1995.
	GAWK: Effective AWK Programming	by Arnold D. Robbins	A User's Guid for GNU Awk, edition 5.3, October 2023.
	Unix Text Processing	by Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly	Another mix of ancient (and not so ancient) text tools (read: ex, vi, awk, nroff, troff).
	Unix Text Processing	by Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly	2004 cleanroom version with current groff commands.
	The Linux Command Line	by William Shotts	All in one place.
	Bourne Shell Scripting	From Wikibooks	Describes the most basic sh shell behavior.
	Linux Fundamentals	by Paul Cobbaut	Start here for your Linux/Unix introduction.
	Unix System Administration	by Frank G. Fiamingo	A time machine to 1998.
	The Complete FreeBSD	by Greg Lehey	4th edition, 2006-02-24.
	FreeBSD Handbook 14.2	by FreeBSD	With this license.
	Bash Guide for Beginners	by Machtelt Garrels	Nothing works without a shell - the Linux shell.
	Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide	by Mendel Cooper	Bash reference for professionals.
	Bash Reference Manual	by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox	Bash Version 2.05a.
	Bash Reference Manual	by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox	Bash Version 3.0, 2004.
	Bash Reference Manual	by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox	Bash Version 4.1, 2009.
	Bash Reference Manual	by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox	Bash Version 5.2.
	A Byte of Vim	by Swaroop C H	You need an editor.
	The Vim Tutorial and Reference	by Steve Qualline	For everyone who wants to use more than e:xit.
	GNU Emacs Manual	by Richard Stallman et al.	For release 21.3, an older version with less text.
	GNU Emacs Manual	by Richard Stallman et al.	You need a real editor.
	Managing Projects with GNU Make	by Robert Mecklenburg	A free O'Reilly book.
	Regular Expressions	from Wikibooks	Pretty basic but tricky.
	The Git Community Book	by Scott Chacon et al.	Everything is stored in git.
	Debian Paketmanagement	by Axel Beckert and Frank Hofmann	More about Debian paket management than you ever wanted to know. In German, but it had to be added to the list.   Tinux has no paket manager, but uses a Debian derivate for bootstrapping. Further more Debian is a good candidate to go hunting for source packages and comparing archive checksums.
	Red Hat Linux 6.0 Installation Guide	by Red Hat	Linux like it's 1999.
	GNU Guix Reference Manual	by the GNU Guix developers	For 1.4.0, 2025.
	GNU Guix Cookbook	by the GNU Guix developers	From 2025.
	TeX for the Impatient	by Paul W. Abrahams, Kathryn A. Hargreaves, and Karl Berry	About a slightly more recent text tool (and some day Tinux might install TeX automatically).
	Modern LaTeX	by Matt Kline	Get started quickly!
	Programming Languages
	Learning Perl the Hard Way	by Allen B. Downey	Using perl you don't need to learn and use ed, ex, sed, and awk.
	Essential Perl	by Nick Parlante	The basics condensed onto 25 pages.
	Perl CGI	by Kirrily Robert	Web programming like it's 1995.
	Programming Ruby	by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt	Learned Ruby 20 years ago with this book and I am still using the language daily to this day.
	I Love Ruby	by Karthikeyan K A	For Ruby 2.4.
	Think Python	by Allen Downey	It's getting harder and harder to get away without using Python.
	Python for Everybody	by Charles R. Severance	Another version of and based on the book above.
	A Byte of Python	by Swaroop C H	Another Byte by Swaroop.
	Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs	by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman	SICP, 2nd edition.
	An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp	by Robert J. Chassell	Can be used inside and outside of Emacs.
	GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual	by Bil Lewis, Dan LaLiberte, Richard Stallman and the GNU Manual Group	For Emacs 21.2, January 2002.
	Guile Reference Manual	by the Guile developers	Just in case.
	Going from Python to Guile Scheme	by Arne Babenhauserheide	Sounds interesting, not.
	Effective Go	by the Go development team	Fast, simple, easy multithreading, and with a memory garbage collector.
	The Little Go Book	by Karl Seguin	Basic Basics, but not Basic.
	C Programming	by lots of contributors	Unix is C.
	An Introduction to GCC	by Brian Gough	Linux is GCC.
	The GNU C Library Reference	by Sandra Loosemore et al.	Version 2.22.
	Programming Languages - Forth	from the American National Standard for Information Systems	ANS Forth from 1994.
	Gforth	by Neal Cook, Anton Ertl, David Kuehling, Bernd Paysan, and Jens Wilke	for version 0.7.0, 2008.
	Thinking Forth	by Leo Brody	Second fundamental Forth book by Leo Brody.
	jonesforth.S	by Richard W. M. Jones	Wonderful literal programming example in assembly of Forth.
	jonesforth.f	by Richard W. M. Jones	The Forth part of jonesforth.
	Pygmy Forth	by Frank C. Sergeant	For DOS.
	Networking
	Beej's Guide to Network Programming	by Brian "Beej Jorgenssen" Hall	Using Internet Sockets.
	Framebuffer
	Back to the Linux Framebuffer!	by Nicolas Caramelli	It's not just a presentation. Lot's of research and ideas.
	Linux Fb Documentation	by the kernel development community	Describes the frame buffer API used by applications.
	X Window System
	Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual	by David Rosenthal	Mentioned in the X-Windows Disaster chapter out of the Unix-Haters Handbook.
	Assembler
	X86 Assembly	from Wikibooks	C is assembler.
	PC Assembly Language	by Paul A. Carter	Using NASM.
	x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu	by Ed Jorgensen	Using yasm.
	Intel x86 Assembly Language & Microarchitecture	by Stack Overflow contributors	Contains invoking BIOS routine examples.
	AI
	Undertanding Deep Learning	by Simon J.D. Prince	And for something recent in IT development and for you offline entertainment.
	Religion
	The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra	from Wikisource	Short version with the famous form is emptiness, emptiness is form line.
	The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra	from Wikisource	Long version.
	The Diamond of Perfect Wisdom Sutra	from Lapis Lazuli Texts	about the nature of reality, emptiness, and the path to enlightenment.
	The Bible	translated by Michael Paul Johnson et al.	World English Bible.