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Linux Device Drivers (Nutshell Handbook)

Linux Device Drivers (Nutshell Handbook)

by Alessandro Rubini, Jonathan Corbet, Greg Kroah-Hartman

Device drivers literally drive everything you're interested in--disks, monitors, keyboards, modems--everything outside the computer chip and memory. And writing device drivers is one of the few areas of programming for the Linux operating system that calls for unique, Linux-specific knowledge. For years now, programmers have relied on the classic "Linux Device Drivers" from O'Reilly to master this critical... (more)

Learning the bash Shell (Nutshell Handbooks)

Learning the bash Shell (Nutshell Handbooks)

by Bill Rosenblatt, Cameron Hewham

O'Reilly's bestselling book on Linux's bash shell is at it again. Now that Linux is an established player both as a server and on the desktop "Learning the bash Shell" has been updated and refreshed to account for all the latest changes. Indeed, this third edition serves as the most valuable guide yet to the bash shell. As any good programmer knows, the first thing users of the Linux operating system come face... (more)

UML in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell)

by Sinan Si Alhir

Modeling languages have been used by system developers for decades. But the Unified Modeling Language (UML), for the first time in the history of systems engineering, gives practitioners a common language. Accepted as a standard by the Object Management Group (OMG) in 1997, the language has already achieved more success than any previous contenders. With a firm conceptual and pragmatic basis, it is well suited to... (more)