“I have found this book to be a very useful classroom text, as well as a great Linux resource. It teaches Linux using a ground-up approach that gives students the chance to progress with their skills and grow into the Linux world. I have often pointed to this book when asked to recommend a solid Linux reference.”– Eric Hartwell, Chair, School of Information Technology, ITT Technical InstituteMaster All the Techniques You Need to Succeed with Fedora™ or Red H...

The Most Useful UNIX Guide for Mac OS X Users Ever, with Hundreds of High-Quality Examples!Beneath Mac OS® X's stunning graphical user interface (GUI) is the most powerful operating system ever created: UNIX®. With unmatched clarity and insight, this book explains UNIX for the Mac OS X user–giving you total control over your system, so you can get more done, faster. Building on Mark Sobell's highly praised A Practical Guide to the UNIX System, it ...

The Most Useful Tutorial and Reference, with Hundreds of High-Quality Examples for Every Popular Linux Distribution“First Sobell taught people how to use Linux . . . now he teaches you the power of Linux. A must-have book for anyone who wants to take Linux to the next level.”–Jon “maddog” Hall, Executive Director, Linux InternationalDiscover the Power of Linux—Covers macOS, too!Learn...

What do you get when you cross a Mac with an iPad? OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Its 200 new features include iPaddish goodies like dictation, Notification Center, and Reminders—but not a single page of instructions. Fortunately, David Pogue is back, with the expertise and humor that have made this the #1 bestselling Mac book for over 10 years straight.Big-ticket changes. Twitter and Facebook intgration. Air-Play TV mirroring. Power Nap. Game Center. Documents in ...

Eclipse is the world's most popular IDE for Java development. And although there are plenty of large tomes that cover all the nooks and crannies of Eclipse, what you really need is a quick, handy guide to the features that are used over and over again in Java programming. You need answers to basic questions such as: Where was that menu? What does that command do again? And how can I set my classpath on a per-project basis?This practical pocket guide gets you up to speed quickly wit...

iPhone 5 doesn’t come with a handbook / user guide; this though doesn’t mean that you have to buy someone else’s handbook! iPhone does have a handbook! There are three ways to get it:Download it from the Apple iBookstore (it’s free)Get it online by going online (also free)Get it on your phone; if you go to your bookmarked pages on Safari, the last bookmark is for the ‘iPhone User Guide’.So why do you need this book? This book was written for...

In the world of Unix operating systems, the various BSDs come with a long heritage of high-quality software and well-designed solutions, making them a favorite OS of a wide range of users. Among budget-minded users who adopted BSD early on to developers of some of today's largest Internet sites, the popularity of BSD systems continues to grow. If you use the BSD operating system, then you know that the secret of its success is not just in its price tag: practical, reliable, extraordinarily...

This updated bestseller from Linux guru Chris Negus is packed with an array of new and revised materialAs a longstanding bestseller, Ubuntu Linux Toolbox has taught you how to get the most out Ubuntu, the world's most popular Linux distribution. With this anticipated new edition, Christopher Negus returns with a host of new and expanded coverage on tools for managing file systems, ways to connect to networks, techniques for securing Ubuntu systems, and a l...

The first edition of Advanced Topics in UNIX was originally published by John Wiley in 1993 when it was named an Alternate Main Selection of the Newbridge Book Club. That book stayed in print for thirteen years, an eternity in the computing literature. Due to changes in the publishing industry, this edition of the book is only available electronically.I was motivated to revise the book because of the increased popularity of several variants of UNIX and on what I learned from review...

Whether you are generating gigabytes of Final Cut Pro media each day, or hosting a massive content management system, your trusty Mac will happily take everything on and still keep syncing data between your iDevices. It is, however, always a good idea to give OS X a helping hand by blowing out the occasional cobwebs, and changing settings here and there, to make sure that everything stays as nippy and fresh as the day you first switched on your Mac, and that OS X is tailored to meet your need...

“If you’re a developer trying to figure out why your application is not responding at 3 am, you need this book! This is now my go-to book when diagnosing production issues. It has saved me hours in troubleshooting complicated operations problems.”–Trotter Cashion, cofounder, MashionDevOps can help developers, QAs, and admins work together to solve Linux server problems far more rapidly, significantly improving IT performance, availability, and effi...

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks.This title is a step-by-step guide to installing and using Ubuntu easily and quickly.If you are interested in exploring what Ubuntu Linux has to offer, this is the book for you.Instant Ubuntu is written from the standpoint of a beginner. All you need to get started with this book is a very basic understanding of computing, such as the ability...