Provided you have some previous basic exposure to C and Unix, Beginning Linux Programming gives an excellent overview of the Linux development world with a variety of essential tools and APIs interesting. Salient features of the Linux Programming Beginning is broad coverage of important topics in basic Unix programming. In a series of short chapters, the author discusses the basics of writing Unix programs in C, with material on basic system calls, file I / O, interprocess communication (for getting programs to work together), and advanced topics such as socket programming and how to create Unix device drivers Dragan. - Richard Topics covered: Linux overview, compiling C programs, shell programming, pipes, script keywords and functions, Unix file I / O in C, Unix system functions, terminal interfaces (termios, keyboard input, curses library), memory management, file locking, dbm databases, make and source of basic controls, man pages, debugging with gdb, processes and signals, POSIX threads and synchronization, IPC and pipes, semaphores, queues and shared memory, sockets, Tcl basis, X Windows and GTK + for GNOME , Perl basics, HTML and CGI, writing Unix device drivers.