Your Linux Toolbox

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From the Publisher

Three Questions for Author Julia Evans

What principles does this Toolbox follow?

The tools taught in these zines—specifically strace, tcpdump, and perf—often take professional developers years to learn. Instead of slogging through a 500-page textbook, you can just read a 16-page zine to have a new tool you know how to use!

What will it teach people?

Readers will learn the basics of the most important Linux debugging tools, like strace, tcpdump, and perf, and become familiar with core Linux concepts like TCP and virtual memory. I hope that readers adopt a positive approach to learning systems programming concepts. These ideas aren’t that hard!

How do you explain Linux’s value?

Linux is an incredibly powerful operating system, and it’s possible to work with it for decades and only scratch the surface. But if you want to build high-performance programs or debug tricky bugs, you need to understand a bit about how Linux programs work under the hood. That’s what these zines are about—getting you to the next level with Linux.