July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
book
Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
Content preview from Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Preface | xi
This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition
Copyright © 2006 O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. All rights reserved.
groups of people type their thoughts. Whatever you type in a channel is seen by
all other users of that channel.
There are a number of active channels on the freenode IRC network, where you
will find users 24 hours a day, 7 days a week who are willing and able to help you
solve any Linux problems you may have, or just chat. You can use this service by
installing an IRC client (some distributions install them by default), connecting to
server name irc.freenode.org:6667, and joining a channel focusing on Linux, such
as:
#linpeople
General help and discussion
#debian
Help for Debian distribution
#gentoo
Help for Gentoo distribution
#redhat
Help for Red Hat distribution
#suse
Help for SUSE distribution
And so on. Please be sure to read up on the rules of chat etiquette before chatting.
In particular, the participants in these groups tend to expect people to read docu-
mentation and do some experimentation before asking for help with a problem.
Linux User Groups
Many Linux User Groups around the world offer direct support to users. Typi-
cally, Linux User Groups engage in such activities as installation days, talks and
seminars, demonstration nights, and purely social events. Linux User Groups are
a great way of meeting other Linux users in your area. There are a number of
published lists ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.