Linux Application Development

Michael K. Johnson Erik W. Troan

News Flash! Linux Application Development, Second Edition is now available. This web site will be updated with new information pertinent to the new edition shortly. Until then, the content on this page, such as the Preface, is from the first edition. Please bear with us while we redesign the web site, and while we work on creating the PDF version. In the mean time, we have added the source to the programs from the second edition.

Linux Application Development helps C programmers write applications that run on Linux. Chock-full of tested and commented source code examples, it has been tested and approved by Linux newcomers as well as Linux experts. Read cover-to-cover, it is a gentle tutorial. Accessed via the index and table of contents, it is a complete reference that the authors themselves use regularly.

What's in the book?

Read all about it here:

• Read the Preface for a summary of what you can expect to find in Linux Application Development.
• Read the Table of Contents when the preface has piqued your interest.
• Look at the source code from Linux Application Development.
• Check the errata to see what silly mistakes we made, and find out about any updated information we have found to add.
• Read the Bibliography to find out what books interested and inspired us.
• A few GNU Texinfo documents mentioned in Linux Application Development

Linux Information

• The Linux Documentation Project, recent Linux news and lots of freely-available documentation.
• The comp.os.linux.announce archives; look here for announcements of all sorts of software, user group meetings, and other things related to Linux.
• The Linux Kernel Archives, the official distribution point for the Linux Kernel, and more.
• Slashdot.org, technical news, rumors, and editorials with frequent Linux coverage.
• Freshmeat, up-to-the-second news on the latest software releases in the Linux world.
• Linux Weekly News, Linux News, updated every Thursday, and their daily updates posted most other days.
• Linux Journal, a monthly magazine about Linux.
• Linux Magazine, another monthly magazine about Linux.
• Linux Development Software, now somewhat dated; once a well-maintained list of links to useful information for development on Linux.

Aber ich kann kein Englisch!

(See the German translation of LAD, Anwendungen entwickeln unter Linux, ISBN 3-8273-1449-6. No, the cover does not look anything like the original, but we're told that the contents are a faithful translation.)

Japanese

We are pleased to introduce the Japanese translation of Linux Application Development from ASCII books, ISBN 4-7561-2044-X.

Polish

Other Information

• Standard ECMA-48, Fifth Edition - June 1991
  If you liked Chapter 20, The Linux Console, but want more, this is the standard you want to read.
• If you wish that LAD covered graphics programming, look at The GIMP Toolkit (Gtk+) and the GNOME project, which uses Gtk+ as its graphical toolkit, but is in the process of building an entire application framework as well. We particularly recommend Havoc Pennington's GTK+/Gnome Application Development for a good understanding of how Gtk+ and GNOME work.