UNIX Unleashed, System Administrator's Edition

By Robin Burk and David B. Horvath

This edition of UNIX Unleashed includes a substantial amount of new information describing Internet and World Wide Web technologies in UNIX. New topics include:

• Programming Web pages with HTML
• Object-oriented programming in C++
• Programming Common Gateway Interfaces (CGI) using Perl, C/C++, HTML, and the UNIX shells
• MIME, the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
• HTTP, the HyperText Transfer Protocol
• Web servers and server performance

As UNIX becomes the platform of choice for critical network and data applications, UNIX vendors have placed increased emphasis on system maturity, ease-of-use, and security capabilities. Even with the growth of Microsoft Windows NT, UNIX still has a place in the industry. It is more mature, more stable, more scaleable, and has a wider array of applications than NT. Many people claim that NT is the open operating system of the future; that may be true (I have my own personal opinion), but for now, UNIX holds that place.

We've also updated this edition of UNIX Unleashed to bring you current information regarding:

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the most popular variants of UNIX
• Security issues and the technologies you can use to protect your system and its information against intruders and malicious users
• The most popular Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)

As with the original edition, we set out to bring users the most comprehensive, useful, and up-to-date UNIX guide. To meet this goal, we've added nearly two dozen new chapters and have revised much of the original material in the book. The resulting book is so large that it is now divided into two volumes. The System Administrator's Edition introduces UNIX and contains much of the information required for basic users and for systems administrators. The Internet Edition includes advanced information for programmers, Internet/Web developers, and those who need detailed information regarding specific UNIX flavors.

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UNIX ON-LINE Man Pages - Solaris Service

By David Adams

These are the UNIX man pages for the Solaris service, converted to html on the fly by a shell script. Here are the intro pages of each section:

• User Commands
• Maintenance Commands
• Sun FORTRAN
• System Calls
• C Library Functions
• File Formats
• Headers, Tables, and Macros
• Games and Demos
• Special Files
• Device Driver Interfaces
• DDI and DKI Driver Entry Points
• DDI and DKI Kernel Functions
• DDI and DKI Data Structures

This Unix online manual contains commands available with unix operating system, system administrators commands, commands that are used chiefly for system maintenance and administration purposes, commands found only in the SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package, commands for communicating with other systems, commands associated with Form and Menu Language Interpreter (FMLI), commands specific to the SunOS system, system calls, functions found in various Solaris libraries, shared library and each header used by functions, macros, and external variables, formats of various files, POSIX (IEEE) Standards and the X/Open Specifications, macros, Federated Naming Service (fns, fns_initial_context, fns_policies, and fns_references), character and block devices, STREAMS modules, network protocols, file systems, ioctl requests for driver subsystems and classes.......

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Linux Dictionary Version 0.16

By Binh Nguyen

This document is designed to be a resource for those Linux users wishing to seek clarification on Linux/UNIX/POSIX related terms and jargon. At approximately 24000 definitions and two thousand pages it is one of the largest Linux related dictionaries currently available. Due to the rapid rate at which new terms are being created it has been decided that this will be an active project. We welcome input into the content of this document. At this moment in time half yearly updates are being envisaged.

a-Linux
a-Linux is an x86 floppy-based mini-distribution, where assembly code meets Linux kernel. It contains only programs written in assembly language. It is extemely small, yet functional, and provides HTTP and FTP services out-of-the-box. Initial version 0.17 was released August 17, 2002. A floppy-based distribution. From LWN Distribution List.......

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