Linux Programming Unleashed
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Linux has always provided a rich programming environment, ….. Linux and Linux programming today, and made some reasonable predictions about the …
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Introduction
Linux has always provided a rich programming environment, and it has only grown richer.
Two new compilers, egcs and pgcs, joined the GNU project’s gcc, the original Linux
compiler. In fact, as this book went to press, the Free Software Foundation, custodians of
the GNU project, announced that gcc would be maintained by the creators and maintainers
of egcs. A huge variety of editors stand alongside the spartan and much-maligned vi
and emacs’ marvelous complexity. Driven largely by the Linux kernel, GNU’s C library
has evolved so dramatically that a new version, glibc (also known as libc6) has emerged
as the standard C library. Linux hackers have honed the GNU project’s always serviceable
development suite into powerful tools. New widget sets have taken their place
beside the old UNIX standbys. Lesstif is a free, source-compatible implementation of
Motif 1.2; KDE, the K Desktop Environment based on the Qt class libraries from
TrollTech, answers the desktop challenge posed by the X Consortium’s CDE (Common
Desktop Environment).
What This Book Will Do for You
In this book, we propose to show you how to program in, on, and for Linux. We’ll
focus almost exclusively on the C…
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