3. Unix FAQs and General Resources

• The Complete Unix Reference System

• Unix FAQ

• Unix System - What is Unix?

• Unix FAQ

• Unix Gurus Universe Page

• Unix Reference Desk

• Resources for Sun Users and Administrators

• www.ora.com O'Reilly & Associates

  A very good source for Unix Books

• Lions' Commentary on Unix

• comp.sources.unix FAQ

• [DRAFT FAQ] The Well-Tempered Unix Application

• How To Write Unmaintainable Code

• The Art Of Unix Programming by Eric Raymond

  This book will attempt to capture the engineering wisdom and philosophy of the Unix community as it's applied today -- not merely as it has been written down in the past, but as a living "special transmission, outside the scriptures" passed from guru to guru. Accordingly, the book doesn't focus so much on "what" as on "why", showing the connection between Unix philosophy and practice through case studies in widely available open-source software.

• The Unix Rosetta Stone

• Other Unix products

  You probably never knew that there were diapers being sold under the UNIX trademark...

• Unix Toolbox

  An extensive list of commands and tasks that are reasonably useful to fairly advanced users, and with some "dialect" translations for common flavours (e.g. - several Linux flavours versus FreeBSD).