FLOSS Manuals is a collection of manuals that explain how to install and use a range of free and open source software. The manuals are friendly and simple, and they are intended to encourage people to explore the wide range of free, open source alternatives to expensive and restrictively licensed software. At FLOSS Manuals you can find manuals for free and open source software like office applications, as well as web editing and browsing, and tools for playing, making, streaming and sharing audio and video.
FLOSS Manuals make free software more accessible by providing clear documentation that accurately explains their purpose and use. Each manual explains what the software does and what it doesn't do, what the interface looks like, how to install it, how to set the most basic configuration necessary, and how to use its main functions. To ensure the information remains useful and up to date the manuals are regularly developed to add more advanced uses, and to document changes and new versions of the software.
You can read and use the manuals in a number of different ways. They can be read online in separately indexed chapters, and you can use the website as a reference base in this way. You can also view, download, or print each manual as a PDF file. It is also possible to ‘remix’ manuals to create a version that only includes specific aspects of a particular manual, or that combines chapters from two or more manuals in a single document. These can be downloaded and printed, added to websites, and used for any purpose. You can also print a manual, or an individually ‘remixed’ manual, as a book via the print-to-order service of Lulu.com.
The manuals on FLOSS Manuals are written by a community of people, who do a variety of things to keep the manuals as up to date and accurate as possible. Anyone can contribute to a manual – to fix a spelling mistake, to add a more detailed explanation, to write a new chapter, or to start a whole new manual. The way in which FLOSS Manuals are written mirrors the way in which FLOSS (Free, libre open source) software itself is written: by a community who contribute to and maintain the content.
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Print: $11.82 Learn about how to use the worlds best free video codec!
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Print: $12.97 A handbook for video subtitling using free software.
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Print: $17.41 Handbook for the Open Translation Movement
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Print: $17.38 A guide for non-profits.
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Print: $17.16 An introduction to the GNU/LINUX command line!
Written for beginners by friendly experts.
Buy this book and support the development of more Free manuals about Free Software.
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Print: $14.03 A manual for the Firefox browser offering guidance, tips, and tricks, plus an introduction to open source.
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Print: $15.17 Because of concerns about the effect of internet blocking mechanisms, and the implications of censorship, many individuals and groups are working hard to ensure that the Internet, and the information on it, are freely available to everyone who wants it.
This book documents simple circumvention techniques such as a cached file or web proxy, and also describes more complex methods using Tor, which stands for The Onion Router, involving a sophisticated network of proxy servers.
FLOSS Manuals publications will always be available for free in HTMl and PDF from the FLOSS Manuals Website. Each book sale generates $2.50 (USD). 100% of this income goes back into the development of more manuals about free software.
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FLOSS Manuals is a non-profit foundation and community creating free manuals about free software.
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Print: $15.48 The premier vector graphic editor for OSX, Linux, Windows. The manual is written by the official Inkscape documentation team and friends.
FLOSS Manuals publications will always be available for free in HTMl and PDF from the FLOSS Manuals Website. Each book sale generates $2.50 (USD). 100% of this income goes back into the development of more manuals about free software.
http://www.flossmanuals.net
FLOSS Manuals is a non-profit foundation and community creating free manuals about free software.
adam@flossmanuals.net
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Print: $13.02 Download: FREE Learn how to use FLOSS Manuals. Includes essay by founder Adam Hyde about why we need free documentation.
FLOSS Manuals publications will always be available for free in HTMl and PDF from the FLOSS Manuals Website. Each book sale generates $2.50 (USD). 100% of this income goes back into the development of more manuals about free software.
http://www.flossmanuals.net
FLOSS Manuals is a non-profit foundation and community creating free manuals about free software.
adam@flossmanuals.net
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Print: $14.92 Download: FREE Sugar is most well known as being the Desktop on the One Laptop per Child computers. However you can also install Sugar on your own computer. Learn more about this exciting new approach to learning how to use a computer...
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