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 ...

as series editor and published by

Prentice Hall Prentice Hall was a major American publishing#Textbook_publishing, educational publisher. It published print and digital content for the 6–12 and higher-education market. It was an independent company throughout the bulk of the twentieth cen ...

PTR. Principal topics were

Linux Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an kernel (operating system), operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically package manager, pac ...

and other

open-source software Open-source software (OSS) is Software, computer software that is released under a Open-source license, license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and Software distribution, distribute the software an ...

. 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 Free content, libre content, libre information, or free information is any kind of creative work, such as a work of art, a book, a software, software program, or any other creative Media (communication), content for which there are very minimal ...

license.

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Books about free software Book series Books about Linux System administration Open Publication License-licensed works Open content {{compu-book-stub