Linux Unleashing the Workstation in Your PC
2nd Edition
Published on 6. December 2012
XVI, 446 pages
978-1-4684-0247-6 (ISBN)
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NIX achieved its widespread propagation, its penetration of the UNIX history U university domain, and its reach into research and industry due to its early dissemination by AT&T to all interested parties at almost no cost and as source code. UNIX's present functionality emanated not just from AT&T developers but also from many external developers who used the product and contributed their own further developments, which they then put at AT&T's disposal. (Consider the contributions of the University of California at Berkeley, for example. ) With the rising commercialization of UNIX by AT&T (and the current owner, Novell) since 1983, and with the philosophical wars between the large UNIX vendors such as Sun, HP, Digital, IBM, SCQ and the UNIX laboratory, as well the more rhetorical than factual discussions between QSF and UNIX International , such creative and cooperative continuing development became increasingly restricted, and UNIX source code today has become unaffordably expensive and de facto inaccessible. Linux has changed the situation. Linux provides interested computer scientists and users with a system that revives the old UNIX tradition: Linux is available for free, and everyone is heartily free & participatory invited (but not obliged) to contribute to its continuing development. When I wrote the foreword to the first edition of this book in 1994, Linux, because it ran on PC systems, had begun to penetrate the workrooms of many computer science students and computer freaks.
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Stefan Strobel | Thomas Uhl
Linux Unleashing the Workstation in Your PC
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12/1995
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1.1 Historical perspectives on Linux.- 1.2 Versions.- 1.3 Features.- 1.4 UNIX development and standards.- 1.5 The Free Software Foundation.- 1.6 An overview of Linux features.- Basics.- 2.1 Multi-user operation.- 2.2 Multitasking.- 2.3 Memory management.- 2.4 Shell model.- 2.5 File systems.- 2.6 Devices.- 2.7 Shells.- 2.8 Search patterns.- 2.9 Daemons.- 2.10 Overview of commands.- Linux Features.- 3.1 Virtual consoles.- 3.2 Linux file systems.- 3.3 Data exchange.- 3.4 Loadable Modules.- 3.5 Sound.- 3.6 Alternative shells.- 3.7 Extended commands.- Emulators.- 4.1 DOS emulator.- 4.2 WINE.- 4.3 iBCS2 emulator.- 4.4 HP48 emulator (X48).- 4.5 IBM 3270 emulator.- 4.6 Macintosh emulator.- Installation.- 5.1 Linux distributions.- 5.2 Sources.- 5.3 Hardware.- 5.4 Installation.- 5.5 Creating a boot diskette.- 5.6 Boot manager.- Configuration.- 6.1 General configuration.- 6.2 Kernel.- 6.3 Daemons.- 6.4 Serial login.- 6.5 Fax.- 6.6 Streamers and CD-ROM.- Administration.- 7.1 The administrator.- 7.2 Booting.- 7.3 Shutdown.- 7.4 The Linux directory tree.- 7.5 Users and groups.- 7.6 Shells.- 7.7 User information.- 7.8 Backups.- 7.9 File system management.- 7.10 Upgrades.- 7.11 Boot diskettes.- X Window System.- 8.1 Features.- 8.2 Structure.- 8.3 X resources.- 8.4 Window managers.- 8.5 Toolkits.- 8.6 XI1 server.- 8.7 Linux as X terminal.- 8.8 X11 configuration.- 8.9 Configuration of X applications.- Networking.- 9.1 Network hardware.- 9.2 TCP/IP.- 9.3 IP.- 9.4 Serial Connections.- 9.5 PPP.- 9.6 Parallel connection.- 9.7 TCP and UDP.- 9.8 Host names.- 9.9UUCP.- 9.10 RPC.- 9.11 NIS.- 9.12 NFS.- 9.13 LAN manager.- 9.14 PC/NFS.- 9.15 Columbia Appletalk (CAP).- 9.16 ISODE.- 9.17Novell.- Network Applications.- 10.1 Network daemons.- 10.2 Internet daemon (inetd).- 10.3 Telnet.- 10.4 FTP.- 10.5 Archie.- 10.6 Berkeley r-Utilities.- 10.7 Mail.- 10.8 News.- 10.9 IRC.- 10.10 Gopher.- 10.11 World Wide Web.- 10.12 Network management.- Support & Help.- 11.1 man, xman.- 11.2 Info.- 11.3 Newsgroups.- 11.4 FAQs and HOWTOs.- 11.5 WWW.- 11.6 Mailing lists.- 11.7 Other documents.- 11.8 Other sources.- Applications.- 12.1 Desktop environment.- 12.2 Editors.- 12.3 Graphic programs.- 12.4 Word processing.- 12.5 Multimedia environment Andrew.- 12.6 Databases.- 12.7 Mathematical applications.- 12.8 Simulations.- 12.9 Games.- GNU Emacs.- 13.1 Overview.- 13.2 Basic terms.- 13.3 Operation.- 13.4 Documentation and help.- 13.5Modes.- 13.6 Packages and enhancements.- 13.7 Emacs Lisp.- 13.8 Configuration.- Languages & Tools.- 14.1 Languages.- 14.2 C compilers.- 14.3 Pascal, Fortran, Simula, and Modula-2.- 14.4 Lisp and Prolog.- 14.5 Tcl.- 14.6 Interface builders.- 14.7 Metacard.- 14.8 awk, gawk.- 14.9 Perl.- 14.10 Editors.- 14.11 GNU Debugger (GDB).- 14.12 Make utility.- 14.13 Imake.- 14.14 RCS.- 14.15 xwpe.- 14.16 Example.- 14.17 Porting software.- Reference.- A. 1 Overview of /etc files.- A.2 Overview of /etc directories.- A.3 Configuration of the kernel.- A.4 Further reading.
