This book excerpt is from chapter 1 of The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond, ISBN 0131429019, copyright 2004. All rights reserved. This part of chapter 1 ...
As an alternative method to signing on through the TELNET daemon, the UNIX spawner program allows SAS/CONNECT sessions on UNIX systems without requiring that username ...
Linux is everywhere these days. It runs our phones, the web servers that underpin everything from Facebook to Google, even our cars. That means there's a bigger demand for people who know how to work ...
#1 hacker?? puh-leeze.. what has ESR "hacked" lately? His beloved fetchmail was simply a fork of someone else's project. And I've read that fetchmail is notoriously buggy and no longer actively ...
The following excerpt is from chapter 3, User-Level Memory Management, of Arnold Robbins’ book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, Prentice Hall PTR; (April 12, 2004), used with permission ...
UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency, and Threads is the successor to the 1995 Practical UNIX Programming: A Guide to Communication, Concurrency, and Multithreading. This updated ...
I hate to admit it. I don’t really use Linux on my desktop anymore. Well, technically I do. I boot into Linux. Then I do about 95% of my work in Chrome. About the only native applications I use ...
Linux is not the same as Windows. The operating system is operated and configured differently than Windows and Windows programs cannot be started directly. With the help of virtualization or Wine, ...