Ubuntu Linux Bible

It’s the fastest-growing, coolest Linux distribution out there, and now you can join the excitement with this information-packed guide. Want to edit graphics? Create a spreadsheet? Manage groups? Set up an NFS server? You’ll learn it all and more with the expert guidance, tips, and techniques in this first-ever soup-to-nuts book on Ubuntu. From the basics for newcomers to enterprise management for system administrators, it’s what you need to succeed with Ubuntu.

Beginning Linux Programming, 3rd Edition

If you have some programming experience and are ready to venture into Linux programming, this updated edition of the bestselling entry-level book takes you there. The authors guide you step by step, using construction of a CD database application to give you hands-on experience as you progress from the basic to the complex. You’ll start with fundamental concepts like writing Unix programs in C. You’ll learn basic system calls, file I/O, interprocess communication, and shell programming. You’ll become skilled with the toolkits and libraries for working with user interfaces.

The book starts from the basics, explaining how to compile and run your first program. New to this edition are chapters on MySQL® access and administration; programming GNOME and KDE; and Linux standards for portable applications. Coverage of kernel programming, device drivers, CVS, grep, and GUI development environments has expanded. This book gives you practical knowledge for real wor ld application.

A Practical Guide to Linux(R) Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming

To be a true Linux expert, you still must understand the command line and Linux shells. Now Mark Sobell has compiled all that knowledge into one superb book. Part tutorial, part reference, this book focuses on the commands, utilities, and techniques needed by every serious Linux user.

What's in here? A tabbed reference to more than 80 key utilities (aspell, chmod, dd, ftp, gzip, ls, make, ssh, sort, tar, and scores more). Clear introductions to the Linux programming environment; to vi and emacs; to gawk and sed; to Linux shells (programming them and leveraging them from the command line).

In this guide, the author of many Linux and UNIX books explains how to work with all recent versions of the Linux operating system from the command line. Introductory chapters introduce this open source software alternative to Microsoft Windows. For experienced users, Sobell offers practical examples, tutorials, tips, and resources on Linux tools. He includes a glossary and appended material on regular expressions used by various utilities, troubleshooting, and ways to keep the system updated. Web site support is available.

The Complete Guide To VMware Workstation

There's only so much you can do by multitasking applications. Frequently, you just need another computer for testing software, trying out network configurations, or doing any of a dozen things that engineers and administrators need to do. VMware allows you to run several virtual machines on one physical computer, each completely independent of the others at all levels and each potentially running a different operating system. The Book of VMware provides full documentation on running both versions of this tremendously useful utility–Windows and Linux–and goes into great detail on how it goes about dividing the resources of a single physical box. If you want to know how the Linux version of VMware manages the file systems of a Windows guest operating system, or how USB devices are shared across multiple virtual machines, this book is the single best resource for you.Brian Ward's prose style is pretty dry; you won't read this one from front to back, and it's unlikely you'll even read a chapter straight through unless you're encountering a problem and want to know everything potentially related to it. More likely, you'll use the index to locate Ward's coverage of FreeBSD disk-lettering schemes (or whatever) and read the several pages of text and illustrations he devotes to the matter. This is a specialized reference book, and a very good one.

Hack Proof Linux: A Guide to Open Source Security