The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin

The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin - Table of Contents

by Pamela Jones
Groklaw

May 19 2005

Here is a note to readers from Dr. Peter H. Salus regarding his book, "The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin," which he is publishing in installments on Groklaw under the Creative Commons license, 2.0, attribution, noncommercial, noderivatives. The next installment will follow immediately.

Here are the chapters published to date:

Chapter 8 [ http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050509140911151 ]
Errata [ http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050513135545766 ]
Chapter 7 [ http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050505095249230 ]
Chapter 6 [ http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050502114023686 ]
Chapters 4 & 5 [ http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050422235450910 ]
Chapters 2 & 3 [ http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050414215646742 ]
Chapter 1 [ http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050407114834583 ]
Introduction [ http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050327184603969 ]

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The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin

~ by Peter H. Salus

A note to my readers

There have been a very large number of queries and many comments concerning my work and its development. As a consequence, I've decided to post my "Table of Contents," which I think of as a roadmap. This is not (yet) cast in concrete. I had not planned (for example) the Excursus between Chapters 8 and 9 until last week. But here's my plan. PHS

Preface
0. 1968 and 1969
1. Ancient History: IBM & SHARE; DARPA & IPTO
Excursus: The Law
2. UNIX
3. The Users
4. A tale of two editors
5. UUCP & USENET
6. 1979: V7
7. BSD
8. "Free as in freedom"
Excursus: Hardware
9. Minix
10. SUN and gcc
Excursus: UUNET
11. UNIX International and OSF
12. GNU tools
13. AT&T v Regents of the University of California
14. Bell Labs After UNIX: Plan 9 and Inferno
15. Commercial UNIXes and BSDI
Excursus: the GPL and other Licenses
16. CERN & the Web
17. "Just for Fun"
18. Tanenbaum and Torvalds
19. The Hurd
20. Proliferating Penguins: Yggdrasil etc.
21. X Windows and other interfaces
22. Floods of FUD
23. NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD
24. The Uses of Linux
25. What's in a name?: Lignux and GNU/Linux
26. The literature of Freedom: Raymond & Searls
27. The URL on your breakfast cereal
28. The importance of tinkering
29. The geography of Linux
30. Where do we go from here?

Dr. Salus is the author of "A Quarter Century of UNIX" [ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201547775/103-4901303-9037417?v=glance ] and several other books [ http://www.computerbooks01.com/search/books/AuthorSearch/Peter+H.+Salus/1/ ], including "HPL: Little Languages and Tools", "Big Book of Ipv6 Addressing Rfcs", "Handbook of Programming Languages (HPL): Imperative Programming Languages", "Casting the Net: From ARPANET to INTERNET and Beyond", and "The Handbook of Programming Languages (HPL): Functional, Concurrent and Logic Programming Languages". There is an interview with him, audio and video,"codebytes: A History of UNIX and UNIX Licences" [ http://technetcast.ddj.com/tnc_play_stream.html?stream_id=583 ] which was done in 2001 at a USENIX conference. Dr. Salus has served as Executive Director of the USENIX Association.

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