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This book is written for computer-literate folk who want to use Subversion to manage their data. While Subversion runs on a number of different operating systems, its primary user interface is command-line based. It is that command-line tool (svn) which is discussed and used in this book. Read the rest of this entry »

When the World Wide Web was born, there was only one web server and one web client. The httpd web server was developed by the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche Nucléaires (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.
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This book does not cover the Linux kernel in its entirety, of course, but Linux device driver authors need to know how to work with many of the kernel’s subsystems.
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This book shows you how to create large, complex, dynamically driven web sites that look good and are a snap to maintain. You’ll learn how to visualize multiple Mason-based solutions to any given problem and select among them.
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This ebook provides step-by-step information about how you can create your own programs using Mozilla’s framework. After installing Mozilla, you quickly learn to create simple applications.
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Linux is subversive. Who would have thought even five years ago (1991) that a world-class operating system could coalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking by several thousand developers scattered all over the planet, connected only by the tenuous strands of the Internet?
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In November , 1995, Peter Salus, a member of the Free Software Foundation and author of the 1994 book, A Quarter Century of Unix, issued a call for papers to members of the GNU Project’s “system-discuss” mailing list.
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