If you're thinking about programming or just learning to code, you might notice that developers tend to favor Linux. Why is that? Here are the reasons you should care about Linux's hold over ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ADDISON-WESLEY ANNOUNCES ERIC S. RAYMOND's LATEST BOOK: "The Art of UNIX Programming" Expected to Become the Classic Programming Book for the Open Source Generation Upper Saddle ...

This book excerpt is from chapter 1 of The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond, ISBN 0131429019, copyright 2004. All rights reserved. This part of chapter 1 ...

Eric Raymond first announced this project back in 1999: The Art of Unix Programming was to be a new book, written with help from the community, that would "attempt to explain the Zenlike 'special ...

Although this book is the second edition of this title, the former edition was published quite a while ago, 20 years to be exact. Quite a bit in UNIX programming has changed since then. The book ...

This November, the Unix community has another notable anniversary to celebrate: the 40th birthday of the first edition of Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie’s Unix Programmers Manual, released in ...

UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency, and Threads is the successor to the 1995 Practical UNIX Programming: A Guide to Communication, Concurrency, and Multithreading. This updated ...

Cisco Press, a collaboration between IT super company Cisco Systems and Pearson Education, offers a nice set of books dedicated to Network Professionals and IT personnel handling with Cisco products.

Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Ritchie (known by the username “dmr”) was part of a ...