The relationship between distributed systems and open software development
Communications of the ACM - Mobile computing opportunities and challenges
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
From the Publisher:Once a little-known productivity boost for personal computers, Linuxis now becoming a central part of computing environments everywhere. This operating system now serves as corporate hubs, web servers, academic research platforms, and program development systems. All along it's also managed to keep its original role as an enjoyable environment for personal computing, learning system administration and programming skills, and all-around hacking.This book, now in its third edition, has been widely recognized foryears in the Linux community as the getting-started book peopleneed. It goes into depth about configuration issues that often tripup users but are glossed over by other books.A complete, UNIX-compatible operating system developed by volunteerson the Internet, Linux is distributed freely in electronic form andat a low cost from many vendors. Developed first on the PC, it hasbeen ported to many other architectures and can now support suchheavy-duty features as multiprocessing, RAID, and clustering.Software packages on Linux include the Samba file server and ApacheWeb server; the X Window System (X11R6); TCP/IP networking (includingPPP, SSH, and NFS support); popular software tools such as Emacs andTeX; a complete software development environment including C, C++,Java, Perl, Tcl/Tk, and Python; libraries, debuggers, multimediasupport, scientific and database applications, and much more.Commercial applications that run on Linux range from end-user toolslike word processors and spreadsheets to mission-critical softwarelike the Oracle, Sybase, Informix, and IBM DB/2 database managementsystems.Running Linux explains everything you need to understand,install, and start using the Linux operating system. This includes acomprehensive installation tutorial, complete information on systemmaintenance, tools for document development and programming, andguidelines for network, file, printer, and Web site administration.New topics in the third edition include:KDE, a desktop that brings the friendliness and ease-of-use ofWindows or the Macintosh to LinuxSamba, which turns Linux into a office hub that serves files andprinters to Microsoft systemsPPP, the most popular software for logging into remote systemsover phone linesRevised instructions for installation and configuration,particularly covering the Red Hat and SuSE distributions