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by **Steve Snyde** » Tue, 30 Jun 1998 04:00:00

I am an experienced programmer (DOS/Windows/OS2) who wants to
learn to write Linux apps and device drivers. My knowledge of Linux
internals is pretty limited.

With that background in mind, can anyone give me an opinion on the book
"Beginning Linux Programming" as a text for getting my feet wet in this
environment? The authors are Matthew/Stones/Matthew.

Thank you.

by **David M. Co** » Tue, 30 Jun 1998 04:00:00

Quote:>With that background in mind, can anyone give me an opinion on the book
>"Beginning Linux Programming" as a text for getting my feet wet in this
>environment? The authors are Matthew/Stones/Matthew.

It's a very good, practical book. I also suggest _Linux Application
Development_:

http://www.redhat.com/~johnsonm/lad/

The books complement each other nicely.

See also:

http://www.kernel-panic.com/links/devel.html

Dave Cook

by **Felix Morley Fin** » Tue, 30 Jun 1998 04:00:00

Quote:>With that background in mind, can anyone give me an opinion on the book
>"Beginning Linux Programming" as a text for getting my feet wet in this
>environment? The authors are Matthew/Stones/Matthew.

Seems like a great book to me. Mostly I use it as a cookbook of
sample code. Examples are consise and clear, the layout supports the
text rather than showcasing some graphic artist, and it assumes you
are intelligent and know some programming already.

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by **Peter Samuels** » Wed, 01 Jul 1998 04:00:00

Quote:> I am an experienced programmer (DOS/Windows/OS2) who wants to learn
> to write Linux apps and device drivers. My knowledge of Linux
> internals is pretty limited.

Dunno about _Beginning Linux Programming_ but if you haven't done any
Unix programming before, a (the?) standard text is Stevens' _Advanced
Programming in the Unix Environment_. It's about apps, not drivers,
and isn't specific to Linux, but C programming under Unix has a long
history and a rich paradigm you have to pick up, and this book gives
you a lot of both. It's worth the price and definitely worth the space
on your reference shelf.

Re: Linux-specific. Stevens should be good because it deals a lot with
POSIX, to which Linux mostly conforms. If you want to start writing
device drivers, there is no substitute for reading existing source
code, but they say Rubini's book (published by O'Reilly, the precise
title escapes me at the moment) is pretty good.

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Peter Samuelson
<sampo.creighton.edu ! psamuels>

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Opinions on book "Beginning Linux Programming"?

Opinions on book "Beginning Linux Programming"?

Opinions on book "Beginning Linux Programming"?

Opinions on book "Beginning Linux Programming"?

Opinions on book "Beginning Linux Programming"?