Product DescriptionWritten by Kylix experts and respected software developers, this book provides readers with accurate, understandable, easy to use, and dependable programming approaches and solutions. It also helps readers understand the whys of Kylix and Linux as well as the hows, using carefully documented commentary on why each approach is used. This book is ideal for experienced Delphi programmers expanding to the Linux operating system through Kylix and existing Linux developers wishing to develop GUI-based programs under Linux.
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Rating: - The Title Says it all
This book stands out from the rest. It is not a book for beginners, but a solid discussion of real world solutions.
Any experienced Delphi developer needs to add this to his/her collection.
Covers topics such as Inter-process communications, semaphores, threading etc. Well written with not so bad example code.
Rating: - My favorite Kylix reference
This one contains so many useful Linux tidbits and "How to get things done" sections, it is always the Kylix reference I pick up first.
Rating: - Excellent overview of Linux system programming
300 pages - not encyclopedic - but a rich, thorogh introduction to Linux system programming and how to go about it using Kylix. Well worth the money.
Rating: - All the missing bits - manna from Heaven
I'm a long-time Delphi programmer and relatively recent migrant to Linux. This book absolutely fills the gaps for me in the numerous places where I'm asking "Now, how the heck do I go about doing THIS on Linux?".
It's not about Kylix (although the samples and solutions are in ObjectPascal, of course) so much as about accessing the nuts and bolts of Linux through HLL calls to the OS, MMS and filesystem. Although it is primarily relevant to ObjectPascal it will be a great resource for ... Read More
Rating: - Operating systems programming discussed thoroughly
This book mostly provides linux-specific low level operating system solutions (forking, process control, shared libraries, semaphores, pipes, signal hangling, message passing, etc). I bought it because i wanted to know how to do in Kylix things I used to do in C, and I am very satisfied with the information provided. The book is rich in code examples, logically structured, and well explained. It is written in the hands-on style, where an explanation as to how things work is followed by a specific ... Read More
- The Title Says it all
- Excellent overview of Linux system programming
