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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 005.3 EAN: 9781593271404 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 1593271409 Label: No Starch Press Manufacturer: No Starch Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 385 Publication Date: March 31, 2007 Publisher: No Starch Press Studio: No Starch Press Editorial Review: Product Description: Modern appliances are complex machines with processors, operating systems, and application software. While there are books that will tell you how to run Linux on embedded hardware, and books on how to build a Linux application, Linux Appliance Design is the first book to demonstrate how to merge the two and create a Linux appliance. You'll see for yourself why Linux is the embedded operating system of choice for low-cost development and a fast time to market. Linux Appliance Design shows how to build better appliances-appliances with more types of interfaces, more dynamic interfaces, and better debugged interfaces. You'll learn how to build backend daemons, handle asynchronous events, and connect various user interfaces (including web, framebuffers, infrared control, SNMP, and front panels) to these processes for remote configuration and control. Linux Appliance Design also introduces the Run-Time Access library, which provides a uniform mechanism for user interfaces to communicate with daemons. Learn to: Companion CD includes a prototype appliance-a home alarm system-that supports the book's lessons. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Outside the scope of etc.Bob Smith et al., Linux Appliance Design: A Hands-On Guide to Building Linux Appliances (No Starch, 2007) Linux Appliance Design is not, for the most part, a bad little book, but it is structurally unsound in one major way. I realize this is a quirk of mine more than anything, and most people who want to read about this sort of thing probably won't mind it, but it bugs me in a major way whenever I encounter it: instead of getting into the nuts and bolts of some parts of the software, ... Read More Rating:  - Entertaining and InformativeIt's not just easy to read... it's addictive. Great, thorough examples with wonderful twists will get you started on Linux appliances in no time. There's really not much to say besides that if you are even remotely interested or curious about the topic, it's a must-have. Rating: - An invaluable, indispensable, thoroughly 'user friendly' instructionLinux continues to increase in popularity and utility among computer enthusiasts. The combined effort of Linux experts Bob Smith, John Hardin, Graham Phillips, and Bill Pierce, "Linux Appliance Design: A Hands-On Guide To Building Linux Appliances" teaches Linux users how to build better appliances for the Linux systems thereby providing them with more types of interfaces, more dynamic interfaces, and better debugged interfaces. Linux users will learn how to build backend daemons, handle asynchronous ... Read More Rating: - Lots of quirky, interesting contentFirst of all, you know that when you see the word "appliance" in this context, you should think more like a router or alarm system (the book uses this as a development framework), not a refrigerator, say. [Although (shudder!) the latter could be a sweet example in the near future.] And, before I write another word I should state upfront: I was a technical reviewer of this book. I found lots and lots of interest in my "required" reading: - the authors have developed an API for ... Read More |
