5.14.2009

Beginner & Advanced Unix/Linux

For a beginner's guide to Unix/Linux, take a look the UNIX Tutorial for Beginners. It covers everything you need to know to get started, e.g., files, directories, file security (access rights), processes and jobs, and the Makefile. It even has pictures! This is the perfect primer for the brand new computer science student, or even for the Windows guru who has had no exposure to the o/s. Make sure to bookmark it for future reference, people!



CodeSourcery, a proponent of open-source software, created Advanced Linux Programming published by New Riders Publishing. From experience, when any type of publication has "Advanced" in the title, it usually means business. And yes, this business does deliver 24/7. When a book can show me when and how to write an inline assembly instruction, that's when I go home and cry to mom. If you're a language head, and want to know more about processes, threads, and system calls, this just might be what you are looking for. It certainly is priced perfectly. For those of you interesting in security in operating systems, Chapter 10 discusses Buffer Overruns and Race Conditions.

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