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Introduction to System Programming in Linux (Early Access)
- __turbobrew__ 2y agoI might buy it, but the content already seems to overlap with APUE and/or the Linux Programming Interface
- romerstomer 2y agoI've read both and still refer to TLPI as the bible. But if ever a subject needed an ELIF version, it is this one
- __turbobrew__ 2y agoI could see there being space for a book which covers new(er) kernel mechanisms and features, but as you said TLPI is the Word and if your book covers the same content it doesn’t add a lot of value.
- kaycey2022 2y agoTLPI is ELIF version though
- alfiedotwtf 2y agoAPUE is a National Treasure, but I think LPI has long surpassed it as what you should keep within from your desk chair. LPI is a goldmine and the gift that keeps on giving, but this book looks like a nice easing into it. Instabuy!
- dmart 2y agoWould be interested in any impressions of this vs. TLPI. Seems like it covers a lot of similar topics.
- shmerl 2y agoDoes it cover some modern Linux features like io_uring?
- kvemkon 2y agoI'd add to the question: namespaces/cgroups, eBPF. OTOH, the book is "only" > Introduction...
- pkaye 2y agoA couple books for eBPF: https://ebpf.io/get-started/#books https://ebpf.io/get-started/#books
- jamesy0ung 2y agoAre there any good book that cover deep linux stuff like this? I'd like to learn some lower level stuff so I can maybe write some cool projects?
- GoblinSlayer 2y agoThe source.
- dharmab 2y agoBPF Performance Tools by Brendan Gregg
- abhijat 2y agoFrom the accompanying code repository it looks like no https://github.com/stewartweiss/intro-linux-sys-prog https://github.com/stewartweiss/intro-linux-sys-prog
- cyberax 2y ago> Chapter 15: Interactive Programming > Chapter 16: The NCurses Library That seems... kinda obsolete? IMO, newer editions should focus on newer APIs like io_uring, cgroups, namespaces.
- PeterWhittaker 2y agoThere are applications where ncurses is still a great approach for a controlled, structured UI, e.g., certain security appliances with complex configurations where web UIs, e.g., are not, by default, permissible. (I spend a lot of time in ncurses on our appliances. We are looking at a web interface, but it will have to be homegrown and SELinux aware. It's a ways out yet....)
- signa11 2y agoit’s more like off topic given that ncurses/curses are ui-toolkits (hah !) than anything else.
- synergy20 2y agototally agree, there are a few nice books so really no need to repeat,but one covers new APIs from the last decade will be wonderful
- DrFalkyn 2y agoDoesn’t top use ncurses? And other utils like k9s
- zabzonk 2y ago>EARLY ACCESS Ebook, $79.99 Oh, come on now! Or all these NoStarch books ludicrously over-priced?
- Jtsummers 2y agoOnly $59.99 with the coupon on the same page. Less than 6 cents a page.
- prettyblocks 2y agoIt's over 1,000 pages.
- jagged-chisel 2y agoHow much of that is fluff?
- alfiedotwtf 2y agoNo Starch Press books tends to be all meat no bone. I don’t think I’ve picked up a NSP book and regretted it… unlike other publishers who just phone it in
- rerdavies 2y agoSerious price for a serious book, presumably. It's not at all uncommon to pay this sort of price (and sometimes more) for high-quality software development books. Most of the books in my software development library are in this price range (if not significantly more).
- johnisgood 2y agoWait till it is on libgen, then.
- justin66 2y agoIn the universe of books that will be used among other things as college textbooks, this book is at the low end of the scale, not the high end.
- sovietswag 2y agoHoly crap this was my operating systems professor!!! I was not expecting to see this here... big smile on my face. He was a great teacher :).
- hn_user82179 2y agoInteresting, this might be perfect for me depending on how the book is written/who the target audience is. $60 for an ebook or $80 for the hard copy is extremely hard to swallow though. I absolutely think a book of that purported length means an author probably put a lot of effort and time into it, and should get compensated. But I'm not familiar with the author at all so you're really buying sight unseen. Has he written anything else? I couldn't find anything with a quick google search. Tangentially related, I was hoping to skim at least the first chapter via the Safari Books Online subscription which afaik had all of the No-Starch books on there (including early access I thought?). But no luck, maybe it'll be added there closer to publication date.
- d3Xt3r 2y agoI concur. At least a sample/preview of a couple of chapters would be nice. Bit of a hard sell to dump $60+ on a completely unknown piece of work.
- LMMojo 2y agoI found only this: "A Time-independent Definition of Software Reliability" https://a.co/d/0q7gkTo https://a.co/d/0q7gkTo
- hn_user82179 2y agooh good find! I went from that title to the Internet Archive version (pdf alert: https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/timeindependentd00weis/timeindependentd00weis.pdf https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/timeindependentd00we...) (legal because as stated in that Amazon description, the paper is in the public domain). I am both convinced the author is quite smart and hope that the topic/audience of the book is very different from the paper because I would not survive 1000 pages of that.
- kaycey2022 2y agoI found a pdf of his Unix lecture notes on the "high seas". These were pretty good. I'm looking forward to his book and I will buy it.
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- synergy20 2y agolooked at the toc,so similar to tlpi the bible book, and did not have chapters to cover what's new,e.g. cgroups,io_uring,namespaces,ebpf,etc. honestly i lost my interest immediately
- adeptima 2y agoif author covers cgroups,io_uring,namespaces,ebpf topics and update the book repo, i would just buy it to support. https://github.com/stewartweiss/intro-linux-sys-prog https://github.com/stewartweiss/intro-linux-sys-prog IMHO having up-to-date broad range of simple examples is worth of 100 bucks
- santiagobasulto 2y agoIf you can't afford this book yet, Prof Weiss has multiple courses listed with his course notes, which are EXTREMELY detailed and well written: https://www.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/~sweiss/courses.php https://www.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/~sweiss/courses.php
- coolThingsFirst 2y agojust get linus to teach you, it will end up cheaper than this book