Linux For Programmers And Users

Author(s): Graham Glass, King Ables
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Year: Feb 2006
ISBN: 0131857487
Language: English
Pages: 700
File type: CHM
Size (for download): 3.6 MB

This book is an outgrowth of the popularity of Linux. Its original version, UNIX for Programmers and Users, written by Graham and updated in subsequent editions by King has been widely used in classroom settings and is popular with professionals new to UNIX or UNIX programming. The increasing popularity of Linux created a demand for a Linux version of such a book, especially in classrooms where Linux is emerging as the platform of choice for computer science students.

Graham wrote the original version in response to the need for course material for university students as well as professional programmers, taking great care to include many different types of users in his target audience. He created a book that was helpful to everyone from a complete beginner to an experienced programmer and allowed instructors to teach a variety of courses. The widespread use of Linux has led to the same need for Linux users and instructors.

When my editors at Prentice-Hall first approached me about creating a Linux version of the book, my flippant response was “Fine, change ‘UNIX’ to ‘Linux’ on the cover and ship it!” That response was made in jest, of course, but I also thought it was rooted in some amount of truth. I had used many versions of both UNIX and Linux in the past several years, and they seemed all the same to me (which is a strength of both Linux and UNIX). But this similarity is only skin deep.

While, on the surface, Linux looks just like UNIX (which is the whole idea behind having a standard), the implementation is another story. With the benefit of thousands of volunteer programers unencumbered by marketing departments and product release schedules (i.e., “business issues”) but armed with years of advances in operating-systems understanding, Linux is actually a significant improvement of an already good idea. When you look “under the hood,” you will find that Linux is a much cleaner implementation because it doesn’t suffer from the long evolution and tangled code base that plagues many versions of UNIX today.

And so this Linux-specific book is actually very different from its UNIX counterpart. Even where the substance is similar to UNIX, the details and examples may vary greatly. Substantive differences include a new chapter on installing Linux and largely revised chapters on the internal workings of Linux and system administration.

While we could not possibly cover every detail of every command or application that comes with Linux (without creating a multivolume set!), we try to cover the basics and the most often used utilities to provide a solid foundation upon which you can continue to build your understanding of Linux and the GNU utilities.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 – What Is Linux?
Chapter 02 – Installing Your Linux System
Chapter 03 – GNU Utilities for Nonprogrammers
Chapter 04 – GNU Utilities for Power Users
Chapter 05 – The Linux Shells
Chapter 06 – The Bourne Again Shell
Chapter 07 – The Korn Shell
Chapter 08 – The C Shell
Chapter 09 – Networking and the Internet
Chapter 10 – The Linux Desktop
Chapter 11 – C Programming Tools
Chapter 12 – Systems Programming
Chapter 13 – Linux Internals
Chapter 14 – System Administration

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» Hacker Linux Uncovered

Author(s) : Michael Flenov
Publisher : A-LIST
Year : Nov 2005
ISBN : 1931769508
Language : English
Pages : 500
File type : CHM
Size : 4.5 MB

This book is devoted to exploring one of the most popular operating systems installed on servers: Linux. So far, this operating system has not been as popular among home users as among professional administrators. There have been, however, developments of late that make this system likely to capture a good segment of the home-computer operating system market. The operating system is becoming easier to install all the time, and its graphical user interface and the ease of use often give the most popular operating system among home users — Windows — a good run for its money.

Concentrating on Linux installation, tuning, and administration, this guide to protecting systems from security attacks demonstrates how to install Linux so that it is tuned for the highest security and best performance, how to scan the network and encrypt the traffic for securing all private traffics in a public network, and how to monitor and log the system to detect potential security problems. Backup and recovery policies that provide a structure for secure operations are also considered, and information related to configuring an Apache server, e-mail service, and the Internet gateway using a proxy server, an FTP server, DSN server for mapping DNS names to IP addresses, and firewall for system protection is provided.

This book is different from other books on the subject in that the security and performance are considered not in separate chapters at the end of the book — doing this would be a big mistake — but throughout the book as may be necessary. If a person acquires unproductive habits of working with the system, two chapters at the end of the book as an afterthought will not break these wrong habits to teach the right ones. This is why the performance and security of each area considered will be discussed immediately without putting it off until the end of the book.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 – Introduction
Chapter 02 – Linux Installation and Initial Configuration
Chapter 03 – Welcome to Linux!
Chapter 04 – Access Control
Chapter 05 – Administration
Chapter 06 – Samba Style
Chapter 07 – Web Server
Chapter 08 – Electronic Mail
Chapter 09 – Gateway to Internet
Chapter 10 – File Transfer
Chapter 11 – Network Addressing
Chapter 12 – System Monitoring
Chapter 13 – Backing Up and Restoring Data
Chapter 14 – Advice from a Hacker

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