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By Brian Jepson, Ernest E. Rothman
June 2005
Pages: 415
ISBN 10: 0-596-00912-7 |
ISBN 13: 9780596009120
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This is the book for Mac command-line fans. Completely revised and updated to cover Mac OS X Tiger, this new edition helps you quickly and painlessly get acclimated with Tiger's familiar-yet foreign-Unix environment. If you're a Unix geek with an interest in Mac OS X, you'll find this clear, concise book invaluable.
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If you're one of the many Unix developers drawn to Mac OS X for its Unix core, you'll find yourself in surprisingly unfamiliar territory. Unix and Mac OS X are kissing cousins, but there are enough pitfalls and minefields in going from one to another that even a Unix guru can stumble, and most guides to Mac OS X are written for Mac aficionados. For a Unix developer, approaching Tiger from the Mac side is a bit like learning Russian by reading the Russian side of a Russian-English dictionary. Fortunately, O'Reilly has been the Unix authority for over 25 years, and in Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks, that depth of understanding shows.
This is the book for Mac command-line fans. Completely revised and updated to cover Mac OS X Tiger, this new edition helps you quickly and painlessly get acclimated with Tiger's familiar-yet foreign-Unix environment. Topics include:
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- Using the Terminal and understanding how it differs from an xterm
- Using Directory Services, Open Directory (LDAP), and NetInfo
- Compiling code with GCC 3
- Library linking and porting Unix software
- Creating and installing packages with Fink
- Using DarwinPorts
- Search through metadata with Spotlight's command-line utilities
- Building the Darwin kernel
- Running X Windows on top of Mac OS X, or better yet, run Mac OS X on a Windows machine with PearPC!
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It is what is says on the cover, May 09 2006
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Keith
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I'm a software developer and a Unix user.
Have you ever wondered where your user accounts or group file are? How do you install X? What's the relationship to BSD? How do you set up an account or group with particular uid or gid? In short, what are the little differences and how do you cope as a Unix or Linux user moving to OS X?
This book is the answer. It describes features which in fact are the differences that a Unix user would notice. If you're from a Unix background, this'll make the peace with OS X.
Not a Unix geek but..., December 18 2005
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David Leader
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As a long-time Mac-user who liked to keep his Unix on Sun machines (and wasn't convinced about OS X) I recently started taking advantage of the Mac OS X's Unix underpinning. Hence I'm not quite the audience that the book's directed at, but I still found several chapters contained information that was most valuable to me.
One small criticism. The section on the built-in Apache web server doesn't tell the Unix geek where to put his html pages - annoying because they don't go in the usual Unix place.
Media reviews
"For those attracted to the Mac in its Unix-based OS X incarnation, an O'Reilly title, Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks, provides insights into the workings of OS X in a *nix environment and discusses compatability issues for Linux users...In the Terminal (Mac-speak for the command line) there is a wealth of Unix shells, tools, and applications. The book covers them all and provides plenty of example code and tabulated information."
-- Major Keary, Book News
"If you're reading this review, you should get your own copy of Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks...These authors have plenty to tell migrants from Unix for whom Mac OS is new territory. Apart from its "rightness" in selection of topics, I see the book's narrative high point as Part III, Working with Packages. While all the information in the book can, to the best of my knowledge, be found somewhere else, the book's value is in its coherent and authoritative explanations that hit the heart of what we working developers want to know. OS X's package systems are particularly confusing, but Jepson and Rothman make the essentials clear."
--Cameron Laird, UnixReview, August 2005
"There are enough differences between OS X and other flavors of *nix that this book is easily worth the cost. From how to add startup items, to enabling existing Unix services, to dual-booting, to building packages, etc etc etc. I'm sure some people will find things 'missing' or not explained with enough detail, but I think it's covers just about everything most 'Unix Geeks' will be interested in to familiarize themselves with the Mac's take on Unix."
--Eric Wuehler, Amazon.com review, June 2005
"So what are you waiting for? Become a SuperMacGeek by using this book. It really does a great job demystifying the FreeBSD/Darwin side of Mac OS X."
--Robert Pritchett, MacCompanion, July 2005
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