Average Customer Review:  
| The best Linux programming book out there | |
This is an excellent, coherent introduction to the Linux API and the standard Linux programming tools. Someone with a good grasp of C will be able to efficiently program in the Linux environment using this book as a reference. Although 500+ pages, most of it is directed to knuckle-dragging "got to get something done right" programmers - in other words, there aren't many pages that stray from the core of Linux programming. I have read and own many other Linux books; this one is the best. If you want to learn how to program for Linux, learn some C and read (and study and compile the examples) this book.
| If you want to program UNIX & Linux, you need this. | |
This should be one of the best Linux & UNIX programming books available in the market. It provided & covers most Linux's system calls in such detailed, although not as good as "Advanced Programming in UNIX Environment", which does a "perfect (or almost)" job (with almost twice the size of this book, though). About programming the X Windows, I think it is OK to exclude the topics about X from this book. Since this book is about programming in Linux environment, not making the X application. (Like Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language" didn't even mention the MFC..) Finally, I, personally, think that "This is the book that Linux & UNIX programmers should have consider about having it".
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