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[Murray Taylor]

On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 10:02, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2004-10-16 14:25, Spiral Eyed Girl <spiraleyedgirl at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > After looking at the FreeBSD website and looking at docs all over the
> > place, I havent found what I'm looking for, so I decided to mail this list.
> >
> > I am a software developer for Windows, and moving to FreeBSD has been very
> > nice, especially since the tools to make software are completly free! My
> > question is: Where can I find information on programming for FreeBSD?
> > Things like how it differs from Windows, what it can and can't do, how to
> > develop for X/KDE. I am good with C and C++, and know my way around
> > gcc/make, but I don't know about system and 'net API calls that are
> > specific to FreeBSD, and *NIX in general.
> 
> Look at the bibliography section of the FreeBSD Handbook for interesting
> books.  Out of the top of my head, you should try to get yourself a copy
> of at least the following:
> 
> a.	``The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System'',
> 	by Marshall Kirk McKusick.
> 
> b.	``The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System'',
> 	by Marshall Kirk McKusick.
> 
> c.	``UNIX Network Programming'' by Richard W. Stevens.
> 
> d.	``TCP/IP Illustrated'' by Richard W. Stevens, Volumes I & II.
> 
> These might amount to a large sum of money, so you might want to explore
> the manpages and online docs at www.FreeBSD.org/docs.html first &
> experiment a bit with an installed FreeBSD system to see if you can find
> something interesting.
> 
> Finally, a great source of knowledge about the way FreeBSD works is the
> source itself.  I still can't believe all the stuff I've learned by
> reading parts of the source tree during the past 4-5 years, and I have
> *so* *much* more to learn...
> 
> - Giorgos
> 

A good into to network stuff is "Beej's Guide to Network programming"

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/net/

and interprocess stuff by Beej

http://analyser.oli.tudelft.nl/beej/mirror/ipc/
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