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Linux and the Unix Philosophy

ISBN: 1555582737
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2005
Pages: 92

Authors: Mike Gancarz

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• Table of Contents
• Back Cover
• Linux and the Unix Philosophy
• Foreword
• Preface
• Chapter overviews
• Introduction to The Unix Philosophy
• Chapter 1: The Unix Philosophy: A Cast of Thousands
• The Not invented here syndrome
• Developing Unix
• Linux: A cast of one plus one million
• The Unix philosophy in a nutshell
• Chapter 2: One Small Step for Humankind
• Tenet 1: Small is beautiful
• Software engineering made easy
• Looking at a bug
• Tenet 2: Make each program do one thing well
• Chapter 3: Rapid Prototyping for Fun and Profit
• Tenet 3: Build a prototype as soon as possible
• The Three Systems of Man
• The First System of man
• The Second System of man
• The Third System of man
• Linux is both a Third System and a Second System
• Building the Third System
• Chapter 4: The Portability Priority
• Tenet 4: Choose portability over efficiency
• Tenet 5: Store data in flat text files
• Chapter 5: Now that s Leverage
• Tenet 6: Use software leverage to your advantage
• Tenet 7: Use shell scripts to increase leverage and portability
• Chapter 6: The Perils of Interactive Programs
• Tenet 8: Avoid captive user interfaces
• Tenet 9: Make every program a filter
• The Linux environment: Using programs as filters
• Chapter 7: More Unix Philosophy: Ten Lesser Tenets
• Allow the user to tailor the environment
• Make operating system kernels small and lightweight
• Use lowercase and keep it short
• Save trees
• Silence is golden
• Think parallel
• The sum of the parts is greater than the whole
• Look for the 90-percent solution
• Worse is better
• Think hierarchically
• Chapter 8: Making Unix Do One Thing Well
• The Unix philosophy: Putting it all together
• Chapter 9: Unix and Other Operating System Philosophies
• The Atari Home Computer: Human engineering as art
• MS-DOS: Over seventy million users can t be wrong
• VMS: The antithesis of UNIX?
• Chapter 10: Through the Glass Darkly: Linux vs. Windows
• It s the content, stupid
• Chapter 11: A Cathedral? How Bizarre
• Chapter 12: Brave New (Unix) World
• Java
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Extreme Programming
• Refactoring
• The Apache Jakarta Project
• The Internet
• Wireless Communications
• Web Services
• Artificial Intelligence
• index__Numbers
• index_A
• index_B
• index_C
• index_D
• index_E
• index_F
• index_G
• index_H
• index_I
• index_J
• index_K
• index_L
• index_M
• index_N
• index_O
• index_P
• index_R
• index_S
• index_T
• index_U
• index_V
• index_W
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Case Studies