Category: Unix

By Jürgen Gulbins

Adobe FrameMaker 7 ist das führende Programm in der Technischen Dokumentation und für professionelles Publishing hochvolumiger Produkte. Das Buch wendet sich an alle FrameMaker-Anwender unter home windows, MacOS und UNIX und an Umsteiger von anderen Publishing-Systemen.
Es bietet eine solide Grundlage für die Arbeit mit FrameMaker mit vielen Tipps und Hinweisen aus der Praxis und zeigt, wie damit komplexe Dokumente, Bücher und Manuale aufgebaut und gestaltet werden können. Es vermittelt ferner fundamentale Grundlagen der Typographie, zum Einsatz und Druck von Farbe, zur Online-Zusammenarbeit mit WebDAV und insbesondere zur Ausgabe in PDF, HTML und XML. Das Buch ist sehr ausführlich gehalten und soll als Einführungs- und Arbeitsbuch dienen und damit auch dem erfahrenen FrameMaker-Nutzer ein nützliches Werkzeug sein.

By Cynthia Gibas

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By Mark G. Sobell

Underneath Mac OSR X's gorgeous graphical person interface (GUI) is the main robust working process ever created: UNIXR. With unequalled readability and perception, this booklet explains UNIX for the Mac OS X usergiving you overall keep watch over over your process, so that you can get extra performed, swifter. development on Mark Sobell's hugely praised a pragmatic advisor to the UNIX method, it supplies entire tips at the UNIX command line instruments each consumer, administrator, and developer must mastertogether with the world's most sensible daily UNIX reference.This e-book is jam-packed with enormous quantities of high quality examples. From networking and procedure utilities to shells and programming, this can be UNIX from the floor upboth the "whys" and the "hows"for each Mac person. you will comprehend the relationships among GUI instruments and their command line opposite numbers. desire rapid solutions? do not trouble with complicated on-line "manual pages": depend on this book's example-rich, quick-access, 236-page command reference!"

By Roderick W. Smith

Sybex lately published a revised version of the Linux+ learn advisor, with further assurance of examination ambitions relating to concerns, and up to date attempt engine at the CD with up to date evaluate questions. The ISBN is 0782143121. input that quantity within the seek box to visit the right kind page.--Neil Edde, affiliate writer, Sybex, Inc.

By Stephen G. Kochan, Patrick Wood

Shell Programming in Unix, Linux and OS X is a completely up to date revision of Kochan and Wood’s vintage Unix Shell Programming tutorial. Following the method of the unique textual content, the publication specializes in the POSIX regular shell, and teaches you the way to boost courses during this valuable programming atmosphere, taking complete good thing about the underlying strength of Unix and Unix-like working systems.

After a brief evaluate of Unix utilities, the book’s authors take you step by step in the course of the technique of construction shell scripts, debugging them, and realizing how they paintings in the shell’s atmosphere. All significant beneficial properties of the shell are coated, and the big variety of sensible examples make it effortless that you should construct shell scripts on your specific purposes. The e-book additionally describes the most important positive aspects of the Korn and Bash shells.

Learn how to…

• Take benefit of the numerous utilities supplied within the Unix system
• Write robust shell scripts
• Use the shell’s integrated decision-making and looping constructs
• Use the shell’s strong quoting mechanisms
• Make the main of the shell’s integrated background and command modifying capabilities
• Use standard expressions with Unix commands
• Take good thing about the distinct good points of the Korn and Bash shells
• Identify the most important changes among types of the shell language
• Customize the best way your Unix method responds to you
• Set up your shell environment
• Make use of functions
• Debug scripts

Contents at a Glance

1  A quickly evaluate of the Basics

2  What Is the Shell?

3  Tools of the Trade

4  And Away We Go

5  Can I Quote You on That?

6  Passing Arguments

7  Decisions, Decisions

8  ‘Round and ‘Round She Goes

9  Reading and Printing Data

10 Your Environment

11 extra on Parameters

12 unfastened Ends

13 Rolo Revisited

14 Interactive and Nonstandard Shell Features

A Shell Summary

B For extra Information

By W. Richard Stevens, Gary R. Wright

TCP/IP Illustrated, an ongoing sequence overlaying the numerous features of TCP/IP, brings a highly-effective visible method of studying approximately this networking protocol suite. TCP/IP Illustrated, quantity 2 encompasses a thorough clarification of ways TCP/IP protocols are carried out. there isn't any simpler or updated bookothis quantity is the single one to hide the de facto common implementation from the 4.4BSD-Lite unencumber, the basis for TCP/IP implementations run day-by-day on millions of platforms around the globe. Combining 500 illustrations with 15,000 traces of genuine, operating code, TCP/IP Illustrated, quantity 2 makes use of a teach-by-example method of assist you grasp TCP/IP implementation. you are going to know about such themes because the courting among the sockets API and the protocol suite, and the diversities among a bunch implementation and a router. moreover, the booklet covers the latest positive factors of the 4.4BSD-Lite free up, together with multicasting, lengthy fats pipe aid, window scale, timestamp strategies, and safeguard opposed to wrapped series numbers, and lots of different issues. complete in scope, according to a operating average, and carefully illustrated, this booklet is an essential source for somebody operating with TCP/IP.

Mozilla: greater than a browser - Mozilla, the maker of the hugely well known Firefox internet browser, is ready much more than software program. (Jonathan Roberts)

Linux 2013 - 2011 used to be a huge yr for Linux, with the kernel attaining its twentieth birthday. yet how diverse may issues glance in 12 months' time? (Mayank Sharma)

We are loose Geek - Graham Morrison visits a non-profit emporium in Portland, Oregon, that recycles outdated undefined, offers humans new talents and installs Linux on hundreds of thousands of machines. (Graham Morrison)

12 purposes to like KDE - Graham Morrison rains positivity onto the world's so much configurable computing device and selections out a few of its most sensible capabilities and functions (Graham Morrison)

Dr Brown's Administeria - we glance on the lifetime of Dennis Ritchie. Plus: We ask no matter if you have to be qualified and delve deeper in to /etc (Chris Brown)

Interview: Arthur Richards - The Wikipedia software program engineer discusses funds, banner campaigns and his ardour for selling unfastened wisdom. (Mike Saunders, Graham Morrison)

PHP: construct a mystery Santa script - Why pull names from a hat should you can script it? We aid you construct any such script with Hypertext Preprocessor CLI. (James Litton)

Pencil: Produce life-like relocating works with this easy software - Jono Bacon indicates us tips to get lively on Linux (Jono Bacon)

Arduino: Make a few noise - song maestro Nick Veitch takes tuning actually and transforms his Arduino right into a melody maker during this audibly nice instalment. (Nick Veitch)

Git: song your files' heritage - we glance at essentially the most renowned model keep an eye on structures and provide help to placed its features into every-day use. (Jonathan Roberts)

Banshee: Tidy up your library - wasting song of your whole song and film records? enable Banshee offer you a hand, as we demonstrate this media manager's secrets and techniques (Jonathan Roberts)

Create your individual bootable pen force - while Android and MeeGo simply won't reduce it, subscribe to us in unleashing the whole energy of your Linux laptop at any place you pass (Bob Moss)

Android: the place am I? - Smartphones help you get mapping and placement information at the stream. learn on for the lowdown at the Android Maps API (Juliet Kemp)

Code ideas: development courses - learn how to holiday difficulties into potential chunks, as we enable you to layout a courses (Jonathan Roberts)

Modern Perl: construct an internet app - Dancer is a Perl framework for construction internet purposes. we find it's a great way to extend an easy interpreting record software (Dave Cross)

Python: Menus and toolbars - deal with your interface code the best way that works good for you (Nick Veitch)

Blender 2.6 - The 3D content material creations suite will get a massive replace. The strangely lively Graham Morrison discovers if that make sit down any much less tough to exploit (Graham Morrison)

Scriviner - Scribbler Andrew Gregory unleashes his internal Bernard Cornwall with a note processor and undertaking administration app for writers (Andrew Gregory)

Oracle Solaris eleven - Graham Morrison wonders even if this is often the tip or a brand new starting for an OS that after threatened Linux (Graham Morrison)

OpenSUSE 12.1 vs Fedora sixteen - the 2 major contenders for the RPM-based distro crown pull on their gloves and clamber into the hoop (Shashank Sharma)

Voxatron Alpha - This Minecraft-inspired arcade shooter appears to be like attractive within the demos. Jonathan Roberts reveals out if it's as a lot enjoyable to play (Jonathan Roberts)

Roundup: company Distros - We placed CentOS, ClearOs, Ubuntu Server, Debian and Zentyal to the try out (Shashank Sharma)

News: Barnes & Noble returns fireplace in patents conflict - eu fee talks difficult on patents, Ubuntu dumps CDs, Raspberry Pi finds ultimate recipe and our Qt Developer Days exhibit file (Andrew Gregory)

Distrowatch: A Slackware dog - Starring dog Linux 5.3 Slacko in amazing new form, in addition to blackPanther 11.1 and Finnix 103 (Susan Linton)

What in the world: UEFI - a brand new boot interface that may cease Linux booting sooner or later (Marco Fioretti)

By Mark Collins, Martin Donlin, Steve Baker, Ben Campbell

Mark Collins, Linux video game Programming (Prima, 2001)

The major challenge with examining laptop books which are six years outdated is that, good, they're six years previous. this isn't a major challenge within the home windows global; as we've seen, occasionally the most up-tp-date home windows expertise will remain round much longer than the provider contracts mandate. That, notwithstanding, is sort of by no means the case with Linux, the place a major pool of builders pretty well guarantees that issues will develop and alter on a per 30 days, if no longer day-by-day, foundation. nonetheless, the fundamentals of the mandatory wisdom to get less than the hood and tinker with Linux will carry precise, so it is not like there is completely not anything to achieve from a e-book like this if you are a complete newb. (Sorry, I despise that spelling, but when i exploit the proper one, Amazon filters it for being one letter off from a undeniable slang time period they do not appear to like.)

I am, in reality, that newb. Having ultimately thrown Microsoft over for strong in each element of my lifestyles i will (I nonetheless preserve a home windows field round for video games, and i've to exploit it at work), all these database and online game tasks i used to be engaged on must be Linux initiatives now. So i began with what i may get on the library, Collins' six-year-old treatise on Linux video game programming. First, enable me say that if you are trying to find hands-on educational stuff, this isn't the e-book for you. Collins is extra attracted to getting you to appreciate the concepts--why you need to do anything, instead of what it really is you must do. whereas this is often evidently a superb factor and results in programmers who comprehend extra of what they are on approximately, it is most likely worthy a caveat emptor for the folk who're simply searching for shortcuts, or solutions to a particular challenge. the second one factor to be acknowledged, then, is that online game layout itself is the main transportable a part of any online game undertaking. whereas Collins does delve into a few issues which are extra appropriate to Linux improvement than the other style (an complete bankruptcy, for instance, is dedicated to the OpenSource debate), the various particular instruments Collins talks approximately, and all the high-level suggestions, are appropriate to online game designers who software for any platform. hence, i may move methods the following; criticize the publication for not likely being approximately Linux particularly, or compliment it for being universal?

The challenge is, i will not do one or the opposite. How invaluable you will find it's going to most probably depend upon how a lot analyzing you may have already performed on designing video games and constructing video games with C++. If you could have performed lots, you'll get the main worthy out of the chapters on SDL and openGL/openAL; in a different way, learn the whole lot. ***

By Olaf Kirch

Linux, a UNIX-compatible working method that runs on own pcs, is a top in the unfastened software program circulation. it really is in line with a kernel built via Finnish scholar Linus Torvalds and is shipped on the internet or on inexpensive disks, besides an entire set of UNIX libraries, renowned loose software program utilities, and conventional layered items like NFS and the X Window procedure. Linux is sweeping Europe, successful adherents in North the USA, and producing enthusiasm around the globe. a part of Linux's attraction is the unstructured and far-flung demeanour during which it grew. Self-styled hackers from many nations created it. upkeep and help are disbursed in an analogous demeanour. or even its documentation - from set up directions via guide pages and full-length publications - is the fabricated from a volunteer attempt, the Linux Documentation undertaking. Networking is a basic a part of Linux. As a stand-alone computing device approach it truly is extraordinary adequate, yet ultimately you, the consumer, are going to wish to ship a person a dossier, mount a dossier procedure from one other laptop, learn Usenet information, or seek the realm large net. no matter if you will want an easy UUCP connection or a whole LAN with NFS and NIS, you'll need to construct a community. essentially the most winning books to come back from the Linux Documentation venture is the Linux community Administrator's advisor via Olaf Kirch. It touches on the entire crucial networking software program integrated with Linux, plus a few issues. subject matters comprise: creation to TCP/IP Configuring community and serial area identify carrier Serial line communications utilizing SLIP and PPP NIS and NFS Taylor UUCP Administering piece of email, together with smail and Sendmail+IDA Administering Netnews, together with C information, NNTP, and a number of other information readers