Unix Resources

Collected by Phil Nelson

Quick Start

Other resources on the net

• UNIX tutorials over the net ... (no guarantee about how good they are.)
  • A UC Davis CS Professor's collection of UNIX and C programming stuff!
  • A gdb tutorial.
  • There are many more on the web ... just search for them
• UNIX tools
  • A writeup on "pmake", one varient of make.
  • O'Reilly web site for "Managing Projects with Make".
  • GNU Make, a popular version of make with source code and a nice manual.
• Free UNIX-like operating systems.
  • NetBSD, my favoriate UNIX like operating system.
  • FreeBSD, another UNIX like OS.
  • OpenBSD, another UNIX like OS.
  • Linux, another UNIX like OS.
• Various other links
  • The NetBSD guide.
  • The XFCE Desktop, a desktop environment for X windows, my current choice.
  • KDE Web site, another desktop environment for X windows.
  • GNOME, yet another desktop environment for X windows.
  • GNU Software, mainly UNIX utilities, and the GNU Web site.
  • Cygwin, a UNIX like environment on Windows.
  • FLTK, a GUI development system that works on X Windows, Microsoft Windows and Apple's X os.