The $30 level is totally worth it for The Linux Programming Interface, which is a beautiful reference for anyone who’s doing systems programming or wants to know how all the syscalls and administration commands like “chmod” really work. Very authoritative!
Really? I always feel the manual pages are much better documenting these than that particular book. The Linux man pages are much easier to search for particular things than a book, paper or electronic version.
Curious that the “Linux Geek bundle” books that catch my eye are the OpenBSD-related ones: Book of pf and Absolute OpenBSD. Thought on these two books, anyone?
For background, I switched to OpenBSD a couple months ago, after being on Linux since 2.4…
I read Absolute OpenBSD ~1 year after switching and reading man pages, and still got a lot of value out of it. Bear in mind I’m only 22 so it might not say much new to old school people :)
The $30 level is totally worth it for The Linux Programming Interface, which is a beautiful reference for anyone who’s doing systems programming or wants to know how all the syscalls and administration commands like “chmod” really work. Very authoritative!
Really? I always feel the manual pages are much better documenting these than that particular book. The Linux man pages are much easier to search for particular things than a book, paper or electronic version.
Curious that the “Linux Geek bundle” books that catch my eye are the OpenBSD-related ones: Book of
pfand Absolute OpenBSD. Thought on these two books, anyone?For background, I switched to OpenBSD a couple months ago, after being on Linux since 2.4…
I read Absolute OpenBSD ~1 year after switching and reading man pages, and still got a lot of value out of it. Bear in mind I’m only 22 so it might not say much new to old school people :)
I’m a tourist from Linux, but I love Michael Lucas. Absolute OpenBSD was an awesome read, even though I don’t use OpenBSD much at the moment.
Forgot to mention that my own book is in there, too. So go get it!