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One of the many advantages of free operating systems, as typified by Linux, is that their internals are open for all to view. The operating system, once a dark and mysterious area whose code was restricted to a small number of programmers, can now be readily examined, understood, and modified by anybody with the requisite skills. Linux has helped to democratize operating systems. The Linux kernel remains a large and complex body of code, however, and would-be kernel hackers need an entry point where they can approach the code without being overwhelmed by complexity. Often, device drivers provide that gateway.

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Another free ebook from Oreilly books publisher. This ebook provides step-by-step information about how you can create your own programs using Mozilla’s framework. After installing Mozilla, you quickly learn to create simple applications. After the initial satisfaction of developing your own portable applications, the book branches into topics on modular development and packaging your application. In order to build more complex applications, coverage of XUL, JavaScript, and CSS allow you to discover how to customize and build out your application shell.

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A Network Administrator’s Guide from Oreilly books publisher. This book was written to provide a single reference for network administration in a Linux environment. Beginners and experienced users alike should find the information they need to cover nearly all important administration activities required to manage a Linux network configuration. The possible range of topics to cover is nearly limitless, so of course it has been impossible to include everything there is to say on all subjects. Authors have tried to cover the most important and common ones. Authors have found that beginners to Linux networking, even those with no prior exposure to Unix-like operating systems, have found this book good enough to help them successfully get their Linux network configurations up and running and get them ready to learn more.

There are many books and other sources of information from which you can learn any of the topics covered in this book (with the possible exception of some of the truly Linux-specific features, such as the new Linux firewall interface, which is not well documented elsewhere) in greater depth.

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XView was developed by Sun Microsystems and is derived from Sun’s proprietary programming toolkit, SunView. It is an easy-to-use object-oriented toolkit that provides an OPEN LOOK user interface for X applications.

XView Version 3.2 includes minor bug fixes with no significant new functionality.

The XView Reference Manual has been expanded from the Attribute Summary of the previous edition of the XView Programming Manual and is now published as a companion volume. The XView toolkit provides extensive attribute-value pair combinations, convenience routines and object class hierarchies that are too voluminous to memorize without the aid of this comprehensive reference guide. It contains alphabetical listings of XView attributes, functions, and macros, as well as other reference information essential for XView programmers.

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The complete programmer’s reference for the Motif toolkit now covers Motif 2.1, the latest release of Motif. This book provides reference pages for all of the Motif functions and macros and all of the Motif and Xt widget classes. It also includes a summary of the new features in Motif 2.1. The only Motif reference a programmer needs.

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This book describes the process of creating your own Linux system from scratch from an already installed Linux distribution, using nothing but the sources of software that are needed.

This book is intended for Linux users who want to learn more about the inner workings of Linux and how the various pieces of the Operating System fit together. This book will guide you step-by-step in creating your own custom build Linux system from scratch, using nothing but the sources of software that are needed.

This book is also intended for Linux users who want to get away from the existing commercial and free distributions that are often too bloated. Using existing distributions also forces you to use the file system structure, boot script structure, etc. that they choose to use. With this book you can create your own structures and methods in exactly the way you like them (which can be based on the ones this book provides) Also, if you have security concerns, you don’t want to rely on pre-compiled packages. So instead, you want to compile all programs from scratch and install them yourself. That could be another reason why you would want to build a custom made Linux system.

Those are just a few out of many reasons why people want to build their own Linux system. If you’re one of those people, this book is meant for you.

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Another free Oreilly books publisher. DocBook is almost 10 years old. It began in 1991 as a joint project of HaL Computer Systems and O’Reilly. Its popularity grew, and eventually it spawned its own maintenance organization, the Davenport Group. In mid-1998, it became a Technical Committee (TC) of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).

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This book is for you if you’re curious about Common Lisp, regardless of whether you’re already convinced you want to use it or if you just want to know what all the fuss is about.

If you’ve learned some Lisp already but have had trouble making the leap from academic exercises to real programs, this book should get you on your way. On the other hand, you don’t have to be already convinced that you want to use Lisp to get something out of this book.

If you’re a hard-nosed pragmatist who wants to know what advantages Common Lisp has over languages such as Perl, Python, Java, C, or C#, this book should give you some ideas. Or maybe you don’t even care about using Lisp—maybe you’re already sure Lisp isn’t really any better than other languages you know but are annoyed by some Lisper telling you that’s because you just don’t “get it.” If so, this book will give you a straight-to-the-point introduction to Common Lisp. If, after reading this book, you still think Common Lisp is no better than your current favorite languages, you’ll be in an excellent position to explain exactly why.

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In Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004, you can use Flash Projects to manage multiple document files in a single project. Flash Projects allow you to group multiple, related files together to create complex applications.

You can use version-control features with projects to ensure that the correct file versions are used during editing, and to prevent accidental overwriting. To use version control, you must first add files to a project.

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This is a java ebook/tutorial in wiki format, Introduction to Java covers: Introduction to Java Overview of Java, Concepts of Object Oriented Programming, How to Setup Java on your PC Introduction to Applets, View Applet in a web browser, Data Types, Variables,and Arrays
Operators, Control Statements, Packages, Classes, and Interfaces, Inheritance and Polymorphism, Strings, Recursion, Random Numbers, Exception Handling, Java IO and file Handling, Java Thread and Multithreading, Java Collections, Java Network Programming, Image, Audio, Video, Advanced Java, Generics, AWT, Swing, Regular Expression, JDBC and the last is XML and Java.

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