I just got my empeg player, and I must say this baby really kicks ass!

I have one simple question:
Can someone recommend some books about C and Linux?

I'm new at Linux and programming. I've been a end-user of Dos and Windows for a couple of years now, and I want to learn more about C programming and Linux. As I can see, some of you guys are really good at this. Where have you learned all this? Any tips?

Thanks
André Johnsen

http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/CE.html
http://vlsicad.cs.ucla.edu/software/Unix-n-C.html

Best is to get a good book to start..

For Linux, the Unleashed books (Sams publishing) seem to be pretty decent. Specifically - Debian Unleashed. If you haven't dug that far into it yet, the empeg runs the Debian flavor of Linux.

For C, I've been reading GNU C++ for Linux, by Tom Swan. This covers the free C++ that comes with most Linux distributions, from the ground up.

Not sure what veteren Linux gurus and/or seasoned programmers have to say about either book, but so far, they've done me pretty well...

If you haven't dug that far into it yet, the empeg runs the Debian flavor of Linux.

Well, Debian is where we got the packages from but I wouldn't really say that anything about Debian covered in a specific Debian book would be an advantage. Although I have run apt-get on a car player it wasn't with the developer image we ship :-)

There is nothing really Debian specific about the developer image we provide - it was just a convenient source of pre-compiled binaries. Cross compiling a lot of things isn't easy!

--
Mike Crowe
I may not be speaking on behalf of empeg above :-)

Why cross compile...
Just add a Risc PC running Arm Linux to your server room... =)

Jazz
(List 112, Mk2 12 gig #40. Mk1 4 gig #30. Mk3 1.6 16v)

RiscPC? Erk, nasty memory architecture. We've got a netwinder, but it's faster to cross-compile on an x86 linux box (eg, our main server which is a 2xPII-400 with 512Mb of ram and 10,000rpm disk...)

Hugo