Linux Books
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Leveraging Drupal: Getting Your Site Done Right (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
Published 12 years ago
by Victor Kane, Wrox
This book is a step-by-step guide and a hands-on co-piloted experience for those trying to make Drupal powered websites work for them, and for their clients. Much more than a "tutorial", what is needed is a nuts-and-bolts living mentor and guide which really shows the reader how to do the things really required for bringing it all together in a site which works. This will be the only book covering all the difficult components of Drupal: views, panels, themes, content creation, etc.
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Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library
Published 12 years ago
by Gary Bradski, Adrian Kaehler, O'Reilly Media
Learning OpenCV puts you right in the middle of the rapidly expanding field of computer vision. Written by the creators of OpenCV, the widely used free open-source library, this book introduces you to computer vision and demonstrates how you can quickly build applications that enable computers to "see" and make decisions based on the data. Computer vision is everywhere -- in security systems, manufacturing inspection systems, medical image analysis, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and more.
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Linux Administration: A Beginner's Guide, Fifth Edition
Published 12 years ago
by Wale Soyinka, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Administering a Linux system isn't much like administering a Windows machine. Though the goals are similar and comparable problems arise under both environments, they each require administrators to adopt a certain way of thinking about processes and data. Linux Administration: A Beginner's Guide helps readers adapt their Windows experience to Linux work. Author Steve Shah does a great job of clueing Linux newcomers into the environment.
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Unix in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition
Published 12 years ago
by Arnold Robbins, O'Reilly Media
Unix in a Nutshell is the standard desktop reference, without question. (Manpages come in a close second.) With a clean layout and superior command tables available at a glance, O'Reilly's third edition of Nutshell is an essential to own.Like a dictionary, Unix in a Nutshell helps you find what you need, even if you're not exactly sure what you're looking for (or how to spell it!).
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Simply Rails 2
Published 12 years ago
by Patrick Lenz, SitePoint
Want to learn all about Ruby on Rails 2.0, the web application framework that is inspiring developers around the world? The second edition of this practical, hands on book will: show you how to install Ruby on Rails on Windows, Mac, or Linux walk you, step by step, through the development of a Web 2.0 social news application, just like digg.
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Understanding IPv6, Second Edition
Published 13 years ago
by Joseph Davies, Microsoft Press
Now updated for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, this guide delivers in-depth technical information on Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 greatly improves on IPv4, the current protocol, by vastly increasing the number of available addresses and by adding enhancements for security, multimedia traffic management, routing, and network configuration.
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Apache Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Apache Administrators
Published 13 years ago
by Rich Bowen, Ken Coar, O'Reilly Media
There's plenty of documentation on installing and configuring the Apache web server, but where do you find help for the day-to-day stuff, like adding common modules or fine-tuning your activity logging? That's easy. The new edition of the Apache Cookbook offers you updated solutions to the problems you're likely to encounter with the new versions of Apache.Written by members of the Apache Software Foundation, and thoroughly revised for Apache versions 2.0 and 2.
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Linux Networking Cookbook
Published 13 years ago
by Carla Schroder, O'Reilly Media
This soup-to-nuts collection of recipes covers everything you need to know to perform your job as a Linux network administrator, whether you're new to the job or have years of experience. With Linux Networking Cookbook, you'll dive straight into the gnarly hands-on work of building and maintaining a computer network. Running a network doesn't mean you have all the answers. Networking is a complex subject with reams of reference material that's difficult to keep straight, much less remember.
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Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development)
Published 13 years ago
by Mark Summerfield, Prentice Hall PTR
The Insider's Best-Practice Guide to Rapid PyQt 4 GUI DevelopmentWhether you're building GUI prototypes or full-fledged cross-platform GUI applications with native look-and-feel, PyQt 4 is your fastest, easiest, most powerful solution. Qt expert Mark Summerfield has written the definitive best-practice guide to PyQt 4 development.
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RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide (Exam RH302) (Certification Press)
Published 13 years ago
by Michael Jang, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
The Best Fully Integrated Study System AvailableWith hundreds of practice questions and hands-on exercises, RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide, Fifth Edition covers what you need to know--and shows you how to prepare--for this challenging exam.