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 In this book, we’ll give you a taste of programming for Linux. To help you get the most from the chapters, you should try out the examples as you read. These also provide a good base for experimentation and will hopefully inspire you to create programs of your own. We hope you will read this book in conjunction with experimenting on your own Linux installation.Linux is available for many different systems. Its adaptability is such that enterprising souls have persuaded it to run in one form or another on just about anything with a processor in it! Examples include systems based on the Alpha, ARM, IBM Cell, Itanium, PA-RISC, PowerPC, SPARC, SuperH, and 68k CPUs as well as the various x86-class processors, in both 32- and 64-bit versions. We wrote this book and developed the examples on two Linux systems with different specifications, so we’re confident that if you can run Linux, you can make good use of this book. Furthermore, we tested the code on other versions of Linux during the book’s technical review. To develop this book we primarily used x86-based systems, but very little of what we cover is x86 specific. Although it is possible to run Linux on a 486 with 8MB RAM, to run a modern Linux distribution successfully and follow the examples in this book, we recommend that you pick a recent version of one of the more popular Linux distributions such as Fedora, openSUSE, or Ubuntu and check the hardware recommendations they give. As for software requirements, we suggest that you use a recent version of your preferred Linux distribution and apply the current set of updates, which most vendors make available online by way of automated updates, to keep your system current and up-to-date with the latest bug fixes. Linux and the GNU toolset are released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Most other components of a typical Linux distribution use either the GPL or one of the many other Open Source licenses, and this means they have certain properties, one of which is freedom. They will always have the source code available, and no one can take that freedom away. See http://www gnu org/licenses/ for more details of the GPL, and http://www opensource org/ for more details of the definition of Open Source and the different licenses in use. With GNU/Linux, you will always have the option of support—either doing it yourself with the source code, hiring someone else, or going to one of the many vendors offering pay-for support. Download Free ebooks for linux: Beginning Linux Programming fourth edition
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