From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 16 21:37:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1331C16A4CE for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:37:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ip209-154.digitalrealm.net (ip193-227.digitalrealm.net [216.144.193.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9121F43D53 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:37:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from laszlof@vonostingroup.com) Received: (qmail 94051 invoked by uid 1003); 16 Oct 2004 21:38:07 -0000 Received: from laszlof@vonostingroup.com by ritamari.vonostingroup.com by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (clamscan: 0.65. spamassassin: 2.60. Clear:RC:1(68.32.91.145):. Processed in 0.843262 secs); 16 Oct 2004 21:38:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?68.32.91.145?) (laszlof@vonostingroup.com@68.32.91.145) by ip193-227.digitalrealm.net with SMTP; 16 Oct 2004 21:38:06 -0000 Message-ID: <4171951A.6070809@vonostingroup.com> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 17:39:38 -0400 From: "Frank J. Laszlo" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040926) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Spiral Eyed Girl References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Development Resources X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:37:34 -0000 Spiral Eyed Girl wrote: > Hello, > > After looking at the FreeBSD website and looking at docs all over the > place, I havent found what I'm looking for, so I decided to mail this > list. > > I am a software developer for Windows, and moving to FreeBSD has been > very nice, especially since the tools to make software are completly > free! My question is: Where can I find information on programming for > FreeBSD? Things like how it differs from Windows, what it can and > can't do, how to develop for X/KDE. I am good with C and C++, and know > my way around gcc/make, but I don't know about system and 'net API > calls that are specific to FreeBSD, and *NIX in general. > > If you can point me to a good website, that would help > If you can point me to a (recent) book, that would be even better. > > Much thanks! > Install the kdevelop package, It has a lot of handy tools and shortcuts that makes development on X/KDE much easier. Also you could google around for information regarding 'qt' which is the toolkit used by KDE. Good luck to you.. Regards, Frank