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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers help to move from windows to linux as a developer Post 302297862 by pludi on Monday 16th of March 2009 03:08:31 AM

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The first task should be to get a good understanding of the basic differences, eg. between Windows' drives and Linux' directory tree or the fact that everything in Linux can be seen as a file. There are many good texts about that out there (eg. The Linux Documentation Project or the Linux Gazette)

For more details it depends on what your primary occupation was on Windows (GUI/Network/System). For GUI stuff, read up on either GTK+ (primarily GNOME) or Qt (primarily KDE). For network programming I suggest Beej's Guide to Network Programming. Don't know any good sources for system programming.

After that I'd suggest joining an open source project of your choice (pick any one of interrest from FreshMeat).

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uuid_compare

UUID_COMPARE(3) 						    Libuuid API 						   UUID_COMPARE(3)

NAME

       uuid_compare - compare whether two UUIDs are the same

SYNOPSIS

       #include <uuid/uuid.h>

       int uuid_compare(uuid_t uu1, uuid_t uu2)

DESCRIPTION

       The uuid_compare function compares the two supplied uuid variables uu1 and uu2 to each other.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns	an  integer  less  than, equal to, or greater than zero if uu1 is found,  respectively, to be lexigraphically less than, equal, or
       greater than uu2.

AUTHOR

       Theodore Y. Ts'o

AVAILABILITY

       libuuid is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1 and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

SEE ALSO

       uuid(3), uuid_clear(3), uuid_copy(3), uuid_generate(3), uuid_is_null(3), uuid_parse(3), uuid_unparse(3)

util-linux							     May 2009							   UUID_COMPARE(3)