Linux and the Unix Philosophy
Linux and the Unix Philosophy
ISBN: 1555582737
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 92
Pages: 92
Authors: Mike Gancarz
- 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
Linux and the Unix Philosophy
ISBN: 1555582737
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 92
Pages: 92
Authors: Mike Gancarz