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Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks, 3rd Edition
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Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks, 3rd Edition

by Ernest E. Rothman, Brian Jepson
June 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
415 pages
11h 27m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Preface

Once upon a time, Unix came with only a few standard utilities and, if you were lucky, included a C compiler. When setting up a new Unix system, you’d have to crawl the Net looking for important software: Perl, gcc, bison, flex, less, Emacs, and other utilities and languages. That was a lot of software to download through a 28.8-Kbps modem. These days, Unix distributions come with much more, and it seems like more and more users are gaining access to a wide-open pipe.

Free Linux distributions pack most of the GNU tools onto a CD-ROM, and now commercial Unix systems are catching up. IRIX includes a big selection of GNU utilities, Solaris comes with a companion CD of free software, and just about every flavor of Unix (including Mac OS X) now includes Perl. Mac OS X comes with many tools, most of which are open source and complement the tools associated with Unix.

This book serves as a bridge for Unix developers and system administrators who’ve been lured to Mac OS X because of its Unix roots. When you first launch the Terminal application, you’ll find yourself at home in a Unix shell, but like Apple’s credo, “Think Different,” you’ll soon find yourself doing things a little differently. Some of the standard Unix utilities you’ve grown accustomed to may not be there, /etc/passwd and /etc/group have been supplanted with something called NetInfo, and when it comes to developing applications, you’ll find that things like library linking and compiling have a few new twists to them. ...

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