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General Unix

Some Good Books

Introductory:

• UNIX for the Impatient, Paul Abrahams & Bruce Larson, Addison-Wesley Publishing.
• Learning the UNIX Operating System, Grace Todino, John Strang & Jerry Peek, O'Reilly & Associates
• UNIX in a Nutshell, Daniel Gilly, O'Reilly & Associates

More advanced:

• When you Can't Find your UNIX System Administrator, Linda Mui, O'Reilly & Associates
• Volume 3: X Window System User's Guide, Valerie Quercia & Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly & Associates
• The UNIX Philosophy, Mike Gancarz, Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc.
• The UNIX Programming Environment, Brian W. Kernighan & Rob Pike, Prentice Hall

Specific topics:

• HTML for the WWW, Elizabeth Castro, Addison-Wesley Publishing
• Webmaster in a Nutshell, Stephen Spainhour and Valerie Quercia,O'Reilly & Associates
• The C Programming Language: ANSI C Version, Brian W. Kernighan, & Dennis M. Ritchie,Prentice Hall
• C++ FAQs, Marshall P. Cline & Greg A. Lomow, Addison-Wesley Publishing; see also the C++ FAQ LITE
• Learning Perl, Randal Schwartz, O'Reilly & Associates
• Applied Cryptography : Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Bruce Schneier, John Wiley & Sons

Seminars

There are several "Introduction to UNIX" seminars given by the tech staff at the beginning of each long semester. These seminars cover extremely basic UNIX concepts and commands, and are targeted towards people with no UNIX experience at all. There are more advanced seminars given occasionally, on specific topics such as X-Windows configuration. For both, watch for flyers in Taylor for times and dates.

There is now a UNIX topic course under CS108 which is geared towards teaching fundamental UNIX concepts and tools for development. Visit the class home page for more details.

On the Web

• UT Library Online Electronic Books
• Safari Tech Books Online
• netLibrary.com
• The Oxford English Dictionary
• Unixworld provides a large number of links to Unix documentation resources online.
• The Linux Documentation Project is developing good, reliable documentation for the Linux operating system.
• MH: Email for Users & Programmers, by Jerry Peek, is an updated, on-line version of the book on the MH mail reader originally published by O'Reilly & Associates.
• The introduction, tutorial, and reference to CVS from Open Source Development with CVS is available on-line.