On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:09:53AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:00:01AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Derek, did I miss any of the essential books :) > > It depends... :) > > If you want a nuts and bolts understanding of TCP/IP networking, then > you definitely want W. Richard Stevens's TCP/IP Illustrated series. > And if you want to understand programming in a Unix environment, then > you want his Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment.
TCP/IP illustrated vol 1 should be handed out to system/network administrators when they walk in the door. Allow me to also add: UNIX Shell Programming (Kochan and Wood, Hayden Books) 10ish years old, but still worthwhile if you're writing sh or csh covers the shells and some of the more commonly-used tools in shell scripting. But, no gnu versions or coverage of bash/tcsh. Programming Perl (Wall, Christiansen, & Schwartz, O'Reilly) Excellent combination of tutorial and reference. I don't code in perl as much as I used to, but when I do, this book gets cracked open. If you're considering the following, don't: Building Linux Clusters (David HM Spector, O'Reilly) One of the first books on the subject, and it shows. Doesn't go into enough detail, glosses over a lot of concepts. -Mark
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