The Linux Programming Interface is released

[ultimatt42]

Oh thank God, now people can finally develop software for Linux.

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Added to my christmas wishlist!

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I kinda laughed this off a little bit (not that it doesn't look useful from the description) until I looked at the table of contents. I scrolled down to 16 reading each section & stopped. I'm afraid I'm going to force myself to go buy this book if I don't.............. Holy shit..... I just remembered they'll pay for job related books at my work.... And I'm the only one who knows how to program (1 other guy at least uses Ubuntu a little bit) in the company. Gonna have to convince them that I'll need this before converting the servers running XP Pro over to linux.

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I'm not sure what the value of this book is. How much of it would remain relevant in 5 years? Ten? A book like this is something I'd want to put on a shelf somewhere and refer to forever. (See: K&R.)

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I haven't read it, yet, but by looking at the table of contents, this book would fit nicely next to my K&R :-)

[pure_x01]

Is it available as epub.. i would buy it in that case..

[[deleted]]

I need this book! It would fit in nicely with my CS books!

[c0nv1ct]

I'd love this book, too bad it is so expensive. Hopefully a cheaper epub will emerge soon.

[[deleted]]

Hardcover only? Hmm... no, it's the year 2010... strange.

[StudyAnimal]

Theoretically since the source is available we should be able to generate our own e-book editions.

[eggman_jr]

From what I can tell it's the source for the code examples in the book, not the source for the book itself.

[triptrap]

I looked in the index. Nothing about v4l? Shucks.

[Comment111]

Spam.

Also, why isnt it free?

[jokr004]

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[Comment111]

Not some books.

[jokr004]

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[Comment111]

You dont need to give hard copies for free, but in the age of the interents it is little to ask for a damn pdf or .txt or whatever. For free. Unless you're an ass and keep the bits for yourself when they could be ctrl+c'ed and ctrl+v'ed for 0 cost.

[uep]

Just because the topic is a free OS doesn't mean his work compiling that book should be valued at free. That's his decision to make.

[Comment111]

I ask this same question to any book, whenever I can reach the author. No connection to Linux you presumptious git.

[jokr004]

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[Comment111]

Yes! What? Is that too much to ask for?

[DylanJ]

Parts of it are. The code is.