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Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks, Second Edition Apple Developer Connection Recommended Title

By Brian Jepson, Ernest E. Rothman
Second Edition February 2004
Pages: 383
ISBN 10: 0-596-00607-1 | ISBN 13: 9780596006075

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If you find yourself disoriented by the new Mac® environment, Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks will get you acclimated quickly to the foreign new areas of a familiar Unix® landscape. The new edition of this book is your guide to figuring out the BSD Unix system and Panther-specific components that you may find challenging. The book includes a quick manpage-style reference to the "Missing Manual Pages" --commands that come with Mac OS X Panther, although there are no manpages.
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With its rep for being the sort of machine that won't intimidate even the most inexperienced users, what's the appeal of the Mac® for hard-core geeks? The Mac has always been an efficient tool, pleasant to use and customize, and eminently hackable. But now with Mac OS® X's BSD core, many a Unix® developer has found it irresistible. The latest version of Mac OS X, called Panther, makes it even easier for users to delve into the underlying Unix operating system. In fact, you can port Linux® and Unix applications and run them side-by-side with your native Aqua® apps right on the Mac desktop. Still, even experienced Unix users may find themselves in surprisingly unfamiliar territory as they set out to explore Mac OS X. Even if you know Macs through and through, Mac OS X Panther is unlike earlier Macs, and it's radically different from the Unix you've used before. Enter Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks by Brian Jepson and Ernest E. Rothman, two Unix geeks who found themselves in the same place you are. The new edition of this book is your guide to figuring out the BSD Unix system and Panther-specific components that you may find challenging. This concise book will ease you into the Unix innards of Mac OS X Panther, covering such topics as:

A quick overview of the Terminal application, including Terminal alternatives like iTerm and GLterm
Understanding Open Directory (LDAP) and NetInfo
Issues related to using the GNU C Compiler (GCC)
Library linking and porting Unix software
An overview of Mac OS X Panther's filesystem and startup processes
Creating and installing packages using Fink and Darwin Ports
Building the Darwin kernel
Using the Apple® X11 distribution for running X Windows® applications on top of Mac OS X

The book wraps up with a quick manpage-style reference to the "Missing Manual Pages" --commands that come with Mac OS X Panther, although there are no manpages. If you find yourself disoriented by the new Mac environment, Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks will get you acclimated quickly to the foreign new areas of a familiar Unix landscape.

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"Good computer books are hard to come by, but I have just finished reading one that is exceptionally good. 'Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks' by Brian Jepson and Ernest E. Rothman (ISBN 0596006071) is complete without being padded, and is full of information that any Mac user who is familiar with Unix systems will find helpful..You don't need to be a Unix geek to get value out of the book. Advanced OS X users who have never touched other Unix systems will still find lots of good stuff here that won't appear in other books"
--LookIt.proper.com, March 2004
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"For the Unix developer this title presents a concise, but comprehensive, guide to working in the OS X environment. There are many traps and tricks, and this is undoubtedly the best (if not the only) reference that covers them in specific detail."
--Major Keary, AUSOM News May 2003

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