RHD256 Red Hat Linux Application Development and Porting

Course Outline

Open source vs. the proprietary model
The common Open Source software licenses: the GPL; the LGPL; and the BSD license; and how they affect your software development strategy.
Components of the Red Hat Linux development environment, including compiler toolchains and application libraries
Packaging software with RPM and tar
The CVS and Subversion version control systems
How to compile and debug application programs using the GNU Compiler Collection and DDD
How commonly-used enterprise file systems affect the application development effort.
How to write, install, and control system services.
The functional differences between Linux command-line tools and their proprietary-system counterparts.
Using Red Hat Linux system libraries, and creating your own libraries
Issues to be concerned with when porting applications to Red Hat Linux, such as little-endian vs. big-endian architectures.
How Linux multithreaded applications are built.
Linux security features such as PAM and OpenSSH.
How to use the "/proc" filesystem to obtain system information.
Advanced Linux features, such as asynchronous I/O.
Building software with Autoconf
How to debug, trace and optimize software for better speed and memory usage
The Eclipse integrated development environment