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| Learning the Bash Shell by Cameron Newham, Bill Rosenblatt New edition of a guide to the Free Sofware Foundation's "Bourne Again Shell." Intended both for those who are interested in bash as a user interface as well as for those who want to exploit its powerful programming capabilities. Coverage includes shell programming, bash's advanced command-line features, installation of the shell, and configuring and customizing bash. This edition updates information to bash version 2.0, including information on one- dimensional arrays, parameter expansion, conformity with POSIX.2 standards, security improvements, and the bash shell debugger. |
| Learning the vi Editor by Linda Lamb, Arnold Robbins This newly updated edition is a complete guide to text editing with vi. New topics include multiscreen editing and coverage of four vi-clones: vim, elvis, nvi, and vile and their enhancements to vi, such as multi-window editing, GUI interfaces, extended regular expressions, and enhancements for programmers. A new appendix describes vi's place in the UNIX and Internet cultures. |
| The Book of VMware: The Complete Guide to
VMware Workstation Brian Ward All aspects of VMware 3.0 Workstation for both the Windows and Linux versions of the software. Coverage of the two variants is approximately equal. In addition to explaining how to install both kinds of VMware, the author shows how guest systems behave--in terms of disk usage, driver compatibility, device sharing, networking, and all other major systems--in both environments. Detailed instructions tell how to get the most out of VMware Workstation, a product that allows multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on one computer. Each chapter begins with a hands-on, step-by-step guide to one component of the software, then shifts into reference-style documentation. Coverage encompasses installation, configuration and operation, Windows guest systems, Linux guest operating systems, FreeBSD guest systems and other guest operating systems.... |
| VMware 2 for Linux by Jason Compton Are you tired of the "one machine, one operating system" model of computing? VMware 2 frees you from this constraint and enables multiple operating systems and applications to run concurrently on a single machine without disk partitioning or rebooting. VMware 2 for Linux is written to help you run Windows applications, while running your favorite flavor of Linux. This reliable reference walks you through installing VMware, editing configuration files, and installing operating systems to run on it. For both corporate and home users, VMware 2 for Linux will show you how to increase productivity and save time by using VMware 2 to avoid launching the Windows OS every time you want to work with Windows software. The included CD-ROM contains a trial version of Vmware, ready-to-run versions of TurboLinux and SuSE Linux, virtual network drivers, Basilisk II (a Mac Emulator), UAE (an Amiga Emulator), Dragon FTP Server softward, and Wine, an open source Windows API simulator. |