Posted by: AndreJohnsen
Books about C programming and Linux - 06/04/2000 06:10
I just got my empeg player, and I must say this baby really kicks ass!
I have one simple question:
Can someone recommend some books about C and Linux?
I'm new at Linux and programming. I've been a end-user of Dos and Windows for a couple of years now, and I want to learn more about C programming and Linux. As I can see, some of you guys are really good at this. Where have you learned all this? Any tips?
Thanks
André Johnsen
Posted by: TekNoMen
Re: Books about C programming and Linux - 27/06/2000 13:18
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/CE.html
http://vlsicad.cs.ucla.edu/software/Unix-n-C.html
Best is to get a good book to start..
Posted by: BillB
Re: Books about C programming and Linux - 27/06/2000 14:42
For Linux, the Unleashed books (Sams publishing) seem to be pretty decent. Specifically - Debian Unleashed. If you haven't dug that far into it yet, the empeg runs the Debian flavor of Linux.
For C, I've been reading GNU C++ for Linux, by Tom Swan. This covers the free C++ that comes with most Linux distributions, from the ground up.
Not sure what veteren Linux gurus and/or seasoned programmers have to say about either book, but so far, they've done me pretty well...
Posted by: mac
Re: Books about C programming and Linux - 02/08/2000 07:15
If you haven't dug that far into it yet, the empeg runs the Debian flavor of Linux.
Well, Debian is where we got the packages from but I wouldn't really say that anything about Debian covered in a specific Debian book would be an advantage. Although I have run apt-get on a car player it wasn't with the developer image we ship :-)
There is nothing really Debian specific about the developer image we provide - it was just a convenient source of pre-compiled binaries. Cross compiling a lot of things isn't easy!
--
Mike Crowe
I may not be speaking on behalf of empeg above :-)
Posted by: Jazzwire
Re: Books about C programming and Linux - 02/08/2000 08:20
Why cross compile...
Just add a Risc PC running Arm Linux to your server room... =)
Jazz
(List 112, Mk2 12 gig #40. Mk1 4 gig #30. Mk3 1.6 16v)
Posted by: altman
Re: Books about C programming and Linux - 02/08/2000 08:41
RiscPC? Erk, nasty memory architecture. We've got a netwinder, but it's faster to cross-compile on an x86 linux box (eg, our main server which is a 2xPII-400 with 512Mb of ram and 10,000rpm disk...)
Hugo