Reddit reviews Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

It's missing the first panel:

HACKER 1979: Someone who "improves" a system by creatively making it do something it wasn't necessarily designed to do in the first place.

Suggested reading: http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Steven-Levy/dp/0141000511

Incidentally, Hackers is no longer out of print, and so you can buy it on amazon!

Good list, I'd add:

Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System by Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost


More related to early computer gaming:

Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-playing Games by Matt Barton

Computer Gaming World magazine archives

Get Lamp, a documentary about adventures in text

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy

Matt Barton's Youtube series about classic computer games

Browse the link in the side bar

http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/bbnkp/ive_tinkered_in_ubuntu_before_but_its_the_primary/c0lzpwk

The linux wikibook is okay (bit sparse in bits)

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Linux_Guide

I'd recommend using Ubuntu to start off and reading through some of their excellent documentation. Ubuntu is just one of many Linux distros, but it is good for beginners with a very friendly community.

https://help.ubuntu.com/

Just find something that interests you and play about with it. If you get stuck don't be afraid to ask for help. For some literature on where Linux came from and general history on computing I can recommend:


http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Steven-Levy/dp/0141000511

http://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf

http://www.catb.org/jargon/

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

It provides the basis for the modern hacker community in surprising detail.