Linux Appliance Design: A Hands-On Guide to Building Linux Appliances

Pierce, Bill,Phillips, Graham,Hardin, John,Smith, Bob

ISBN 10: 1593271409 / ISBN 13: 9781593271404

Published by No Starch Press, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Linux Appliance Design: A Hands-On Guide to Building Linux Appliances
• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1593271409
• ISBN 13: 9781593271404
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Modern appliances are complex machines with processors, operating systems, and application software. While there are books that will tell you how to run Linux on embedded hardware, and books on how to build a Linux application, Linux Appliance Design is the first book to demonstrate how to merge the two and create a Linux appliance. You'll see for yourself why Linux is the embedded operating system of choice for low-cost development and a fast time to market.

Linux Appliance Design shows how to build better appliances-appliances with more types of interfaces, more dynamic interfaces, and better debugged interfaces. You'll learn how to build backend daemons, handle asynchronous events, and connect various user interfaces (including web, framebuffers, infrared control, SNMP, and front panels) to these processes for remote configuration and control. Linux Appliance Design also introduces the Run-Time Access library, which provides a uniform mechanism for user interfaces to communicate with daemons.

Learn to:

Separate your user interfaces from your daemons

Give user interfaces run time access to configuration, status, and statistics

Add professional network management capabilities to your application

Use SNMP and build a MIB

Build a web-based appliance interface

Build a command line interface (CLI)

Build a framebuffer interface with an infrared control as input

Manage logs and alarms on an appliance

Companion CD includes a prototype appliance-a home alarm system-that supports the book's lessons.

About the Author

Bob Smith, John Hardin, Graham Phillips, and Bill Pierce have experience in embedded systems, commercial Linux and BSD appliances, network management systems, and designing software solutions for business problems.