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  1-10 of 106 Reviews about "Unix (D.4.0...)": Date Reviewed
  Absolute FreeBSD: the complete guide to FreeBSD (3rd ed.)
Lucas M., No Starch Press, San Francisco, CA, 2018. 784 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-593278-92-2)

There are more than 700 pages in this book, and the author suggests that it should be read in entirety, from front to back! Most readers will be happy to skip the introductory text and jump straight to chapter 2, “Before You ...

Mar 15 2019
  Learning Unix for OS X: going deep with the terminal and shell (2nd ed.)
Taylor D., O’Reilly Media, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 2016. 238 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-491939-98-7)

Apple’s OS X is (mostly) Unix (UNIX is a trademarked term [1]), as it was derived from the University of California, Berkeley’s Berkeley software distribution (BSD) Unix, but with a few non-Unix features. And while ...

Sep 13 2016
  Absolute OpenBSD: Unix for the practical paranoid
Lucas M., No Starch Press, San Francisco, CA, 2013. 536 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-593274-76-4)

In the introductory chapters of this book, the author observes that OpenBSD developers work under a single coordinator to develop and maintain an operating system intended to meet their own needs. There’s no attempt to make t...

Jul 22 2013
  Unix and Perl to the rescue!: A field guide for the life sciences (and other data-rich pursuits)
Bradnam K., Korf I., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2012. 428 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-521169-82-0)

This is an expanded version of the authors’ publication “Unix and Perl primer for biologists” [1], used for a course delivered by them at UC Davis, and available freely on the Web....

Dec 20 2012
  Unix and Linux forensic analysis DVD toolkit
Pogue C., Altheide C., Haverkos T., Syngress Publishing, 2008. 448 pp.  Type: Book (9781597492690)

Computer forensics is a newly emerging field that is in need of good resources. There is a growing audience, with increased awareness of security problems, governance, and legislation, in both public and private organizations. This ind...

May 13 2009
  The daemon, the gnu, and the penguin: how free and open software is changing the world
Salus P., Reed J., Reed Media Services, 2008. 204 pp.  Type: Book (9780979034237)

This compact, fascinating book gives an account of the history of the free and open software movement. The chapters are short and insightful....

Feb 18 2009
  Unix to Linux porting: a comprehensive reference (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development)
Mendoza A., Skawratananond C., Walker A., Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2006. 720 pp.  Type: Book (9780131871090)

Unix to Linux porting offers just what its title implies, collecting many comparative tables and other practical information for moving applications to Linux from three prominent vendor Unix variants: Sun’s Solaris, He...

Jan 9 2007
  Advanced programming in the Unix environment (2nd ed.)
Stevens R., Rago S., Addison-Wesley Professional, Boston, MA, 2005. 960 pp.  Type: Book (9780201433074)

This is a comprehensive guide to the Unix system call interface. It is organized into related subsystems, and each function is shown with its interface, an explanation, a sample program, and a sample output....

Oct 28 2005
  Free BSD unleashed
Tiemann A., Urban M., Sams, Indianapolis, IN, 2002. 974 pp.  Type: Book (9780672324567)

FreeBSD is an open-source, Unix-like operating system. It traces its ancestry back to the Unix-derived system developed at the University of California, Berkeley, referred to as the Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix. While it does...

Jan 27 2004
  Unix systems programming: communication, concurrency and threads
Robbins S., Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2003. 672 pp.  Type: Book (9780130424112), Reviews: (3 of 3)

Systems programming is a challenging, unforgiving, educating, and rewarding activity. Programs that intimately interact with the underlying operating system for providing infrastructure services have to be extremely reliable, efficient...

Oct 21 2003
 
 
 
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