UNIX: The Textbook, Third Edition provides a comprehensive
introduction to the modern, twenty-first-century UNIX operating
system. The book deploys PC-BSD and Solaris, representative systems
of the major branches of the UNIX family, to illustrate the key
concepts. It covers many topics not covered in older, more
traditional textbook approaches, such as Python, UNIX System
Programming from basics to socket-based network programming using
the client-server paradigm, the Zettabyte File System (ZFS), and
the highly developed X Windows-based KDE and Gnome GUI desktop
environments. The third edition has been fully updated and
expanded, with extensive revisions throughout. It features a new
tutorial chapter on the Python programming language and its use in
UNIX, as well as a complete tutorial on the git command with
Github. It includes four new chapters on UNIX system programming
and the UNIX API, which describe the use of the UNIX system call
interface for file processing, process management, signal handling,
interprocess communication (using pipes, FIFOs, and sockets),
extensive coverage of internetworking with UNIX TCP/IP using the
client-server software, and considerations for the design and
implementation of production-quality client-server software using
iterative and concurrent servers. It also includes new chapters on
UNIX system administration, ZFS, and container virtualization
methodologies using iocage, Solaris Jails, and VirtualBox.
Utilizing the authors' almost 65 years of practical teaching
experience at the college level, this textbook presents
well-thought-out sequencing of old and new topics, well-developed
and timely lessons, a Github site containing all of the code in the
book plus exercise solutions, and homework exercises/problems
synchronized with the didactic sequencing of chapters in the book.
With the exception of four chapters on system programming, the book
can be used very successfully by a complete novice, as well as by
an experienced UNIX system user, in both an informal and formal
learning environment. The book may be used in several computer
science and information technology courses, including UNIX for
beginners and advanced users, shell and Python scripting, UNIX
system programming, UNIX network programming, and UNIX system
administration. It may also be used as a companion to the
undergraduate and graduate level courses on operating system
concepts and principles.
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