Beginning Modern Unix

Only book on the market looking at the modern state of Unix and recent, relevant technologies

An exhaustive collection of everyday computer tasks and how to address them in the Unix world

Suitable for complete beginners with no previous experience of Unix

Autorentext

Manish Jain has worked with Unix for over 15 years, and has worked for companies such as IBM, Pitney Bowes, and Cognizant. In 2011, he received the Cognizant Alliance Award (Cognizant's highest award for programmers) for revamping PayPal's monolithic Risk Management code for failed Bank transactions to create a static library with gains in scalability and performance. This involved ~10,000 lines of code delivered in C++ (Red Hat Linux).

Inhalt

Part 1: What Can You Do With Unix Emulation.- 1. Editing Text With Vim and Joe.- 2. Essential Unix Commands and Terminology.- 3. Bourne Shell Scripting.- Part 2: The World of Real Unix.- 4. PC Hardware for Unix.- 5. Installing and Configuring FreeBSD/Linux.- 6. Basic System Administration.- 7. The Best of the Graphical Unix World.- 8. Emulation Layers: Wine and Linuxulator.- 9. Virtualization: The New Buzz Word.- Part 3: Developing Applications Under Unix.- 10. Advanced Techniques in Shell Scripting.- 11. Unix Programming with C and Vala.- Appendix.