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

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" and several other books, 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" which was done in 2001 at a USENIX conference. Dr. Salus has served as Executive Director of the USENIX Association.

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