Unix Resources

Collected by Phil Nelson

Quick Start

A small document to help you get started in UNIX in CF416 at WWU. Available as html, postscript or pdf. Also, a quick guide to program development.

NetBSD VMWare image

This directory contains files for VMplayer that have a NetBSD image. It also contains the 7zip program needed for decompression on Windows. This NetBSD image is the same as the NetBSD machines in the LDC. (Labratory for Distributed Computing)

Other resources on the net

UNIX tutorials over the net ... (no guarantee about how good they are.)
- A UC Davis CS Professor's collection of UNIX and C programming stuff!
- Beginning, intermediate and advanced tutorials.
- A basic tutorial
- X tutorials
- Another one
- A gdb tutorial.
- There are many more on the web ... just search for them
UNIX tools
- On-line parts of a CVS book and a local WWU copy.
- A writeup on "pmake", one varient of make.
- O'Reilly web site for "Managing Projects with Make".
- GNU Make, a popular version of make with source code and a nice manual.
Free UNIX-like operating systems.
- NetBSD, my favoriate UNIX like operating system.
- FreeBSD, another UNIX like OS.
- OpenBSD, another UNIX like OS.
- Linux, another UNIX like OS.
Various other links
- Printable versions of the NetBSD guide.
- KDE Web site, a desktop environment for X windows.
- GNOME, another desktop environment for X windows.
- GNU Software, mainly UNIX utilities, and the GNU Web site.
- Cygwin, a UNIX like environment on Windows.
- FLTK, a GUI development system that works on X Windows, Microsoft Windows and Apple's X os.

As I get feedback (phil at cs.wwu.edu) from people on what is useful here or what what stuff not here is useful, I'll update this page with that feedback.

Last Modified: Feb 5, 2008.