Press Release
March 4, 2004
"Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks": Mac and Unix, Happily Ever After
Sebastopol, CA--"Once upon a time, Unix came with only a few standard
utilities and, if you were lucky, it included a C compiler." So begins the
tale of Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks, (O'Reilly, US $24.95) told by
Brian Jepson and Ernest E. Rothman. But this is no bedtime story designed to
lull listeners to sleep; Unix
developers will most appreciate this book in the glare of office
fluorescence, for Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks was written for Unix users who want to make the most of the legendary power
underlying Panther's beauty and sleek appeal.
Mac users at all levels have a sophisticated partner in Mac OS X Panther,
and no one more than Unix geeks. Hacking code on a Mac is similar to
hacking code on other Unix systems, but there are important, sometimes
subtle, differences. Hence Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks, written to
bridge the Unix-Panther gap not only for Unix developers and sys admins,
but also for web developers, Unix hackers, and programmers who switched to
Linux from a non-Unix platform.
Recommended by Apple Developer Connection, this concise new edition has
been revised and expanded to cover Mac OS X Panther, notably CUPS, Perl,
MySQL, PostgreSQL, and running Mac OS X as a server. Mac OS X Panther for
Unix Geeks eases readers into the Unix innards of Mac OS X Panther,
covering such topics as:
Using the Terminal and understanding how it differs from an xterm
Using Directory Services, Open Directory (LDAP), and NetInfo
Compiling code with GCC 3
Printing and printer management with CUPS
Library linking and porting Unix software
Creating and installing packages with Fink
Running X Windows on top of Mac OS X
The book wraps up with an overview of Mac OS X's filesystem and startup
processes, and includes a quick manpage-style reference to the "Missing
Manual Pages"--commands that come with Mac OS X Panther, although there
are no manpages.
Longtime Unix users, Jepson and Rothman note in their preface, "You'll
find some things are different on the Unix side. But rest assured, they're
easy to deal with if you know what to do. This book is your survival guide
for taming the Unix side of Mac OS X."
Praise for the previous edition:
"If you read just one book, try Mac OS X for Unix Geeks. Most other
books aren't for you because they are trying to explain Unix to Mac
heads."
--www.macosxhints.com, December 2002
"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
"Mac Guild Grade B+ Great...I found that the book would be useful by any
experience level of Unix developer or system administrator...I did find
the book useful and practical and would recommend it as the place to
start."
--Steve Nickerson, Mac Guild, February 2003
"Slim and unassuming, but contains valuable nuggets of Mac OS X lore."
--Rich Morin, MACTECH, December 2002
"It's not just a book. It is the access code to the world of the 'backside
of OS X'"
--Robert Pritchett, MacNut, January 2002
"Despite the title, anyone wanting to get the most out of the Unix
underpinnings of OS X would do well to invest in a copy of this
book...bottom line: if you want to know about the BSD core of OS X, get
this book; Unix experts will find themselves transitioning more quickly,
while those of us from the graphical worlds of Windows and Mac OS will
find it easier to communicate with our Macs and other geeks."
--Chris Pirillo, Tech TV, November 2002
"This little book is packed with tremendous details important to the large
segment of Unix programmers who have migrated to the Apple Mac OS X for
its cool development environment. Although there are similarities to the
hacking code between Mac OS X and Unix systems, there are pitfalls and
minefield that make a guide like this valuable."
--Book Bytes, December 2002
"It's about time: Mac OS X for Unix Geeks arrives on the scene none too
soon for Unix aficionados who, having heard that the latest editions of
Mac OS are based on a Unix variant, want to see how the platform compares
to more venerable versions of the eminently configurable operating
system...It's a fast read that assumes--as the title implies--rather a lot
of Unix knowledge. With that requirement satisfied and this book in hand,
you're likely to discover aspects of Aqua more quickly than you otherwise
would have."
--David Wall, Amazon.com
Additional Resources:
Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks
Brian Jepson, Ernest E. Rothman
ISBN: 0-596-00607-1, 240 pages, $24.95 US, $36.95 CA
order@oreilly.com
1-800-998-9938; 1-707-827-7000
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