Brian Jepson is an O'Reilly editor, programmer, and co-author of Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks and Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther.If you find yourself disoriented by the new Mac environment, Mac OS X for Unix Geeks can help you acclimate yourself quickly to the familiar, yet foreign, Unix landscape. The book wraps up with a quick manpage-style reference to the 'Missing Manual Pages' - commands that come with Mac OS X although there are no manpages. Creating and installing packages using Fink.

An overview of Mac OS X?s filesystem and startup processes.

Library linking and porting Unix software.

Issues related to using the GNU C Compiler GCC.

Understanding Open Directory (LDAP) and NetInfo.

A quick overview of the Terminal application.

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