UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

I am working as a c++/MFC developer from last 3 years on windows, recently i came across LINUX due to some small involvement in c++ projet @ linux platform. I really found it fascinated and found more challenging rather than developing the applications on windows. I really want to go more deeper into it , so please suggest me that how should i proceed as a c++ developer , i am more intrested into development rather than system administartion , so please suggest me that what are the basic books i should get , to get it going. And what are the main advanced topics i should concentrate on. Please suggest...

Himanshu Kapoor

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).

Thnx for rly pludi... its gonna b great that if you can suggest some basic Linux book to start with....And i am working as an application developer mainly on GUI , network programming and IPC... so i hope qt gonna be great for me... but i wanna gain some basic Linux knowledge before i actually get on with Qt...

so its gonna b grt if you can suggest some good Linux book i can start with.. so that i feel confident with the OS... and then move on to QT and socket programming....

I can't really suggest any books for Linux since I don't know any (taught myself through learning-by-doing and pestering those who introduced me to it ). But I can, with a clear conciseness, recommend most books published by O'Reilly and Addison-Wesley.

Other than that it's mostly online resources, like this or this, forums, newsgroups, or your local LUG (Linux User Group)