编写更好的软件：30年UNIX开发经验的结晶！
本书是作者封笔30年后历时5年创作而成，是一部难得的软件工程方面的佳作。作者首次将哲学、设计模式、工具、文化和传统结合在一起，使得UNIX成为世界上最好且最创新意义的软件，并展示了如何将其拓展到Linux和当今的开源（open-source）运动中。通过取自最主要的开源项目中的示例，作者向UNIX和Linux编程人员展示了如何更巧妙地创建软件，使其更雅致、更灵巧、更具可重用性且具有更长的生命期。
Raymond借鉴了以下13位UNIX先锋人物的观点：
Ken Thompson，UNIX的发明者
Ken Arnold，4BSD UNIX的创建者之一，也是《The Java Programming Language》的作者之一。
Steven M.Bellovin，Usenet的创始人之一，也是《Firewalls and Internel Security》的作者之一。
Stuart Feldman，贝尔实验室UNIX开发组成员，也是《make》和《f77》的作者。
Jim gettys和Keith Packard，X视窗系统的主创人员。
Steve Johnson，《yacc》和《Portable C Compiler》两书的作者。
Brian Kernighan《The C Programming Language》、《The UNIX Programming Environment》及《The Practice of Programming》等几本书的作者之一，也是awk编程语言的作者之一。
David Korn，korn shell的创始人，也是《The New Korn Shell Command and Programming Language》的作者。
Mike Lesk，贝尔实验室开发组成员，ms宏包、tbl和refer工具以及lex与UUCP的作者
Doug Mcllroy，贝尔实验室研究组主任，UNIX即诞生于此；同时他还是UNIX管道的发明者。
Marshall Kirk McKusick，4.2BSD快速文件系统的开发者，4.3BSD和4.4BSD开发组的领导。
Henry Spencer，早期UNIX开发者中的佼佼者，他创建了getopt、第一个开源字符串库以及用于4.4BSD的正则表达式引擎。
“Reading this book has filled a gap in my education. I feel a sense of completion, understand that UNIX is really a style of community. Now I get it, at least I get it one level deeper than I ever did before. This book came at a perfect moment for me, a moment when I shifted from visualizing programs as things to programs as the shadows cast by communities. From this perspective, Eric makes UNIX make perfect sense。”

作者简介：
Eric S.Raymond多年前即从事NUIX开发。他以开源社区巡回大使的身份而著称。他在著名的《The Cathedral and the Bazaar》、《大教堂和市集》中发表了开源运动的宣言，并且还编著了《The New Hacker's Dictionary》一书。

本书主要介绍了Unix系统领域中的设计和开发哲学、思想文化体系、原则与经验，由公认的Unix编程大师、开源运动领袖人物之一Eric S. Raymond倾力多年写作而成。包括Unix设计者在内的多位领域专家也为本书贡献了宝贵的内容。本书内容涉及社群文化、软件开发设计与实现，覆盖面广、内容深邃，完全展现了作者极其深厚的经验积累和领域智慧。

GNU Emacs is the most popular and widespread of the Emacs family of editors. It is also the most powerful and flexible. Unlike all other text editors, GNU Emacs is a complete working environment--you can stay within Emacs all day without leaving. Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition tells readers how to get started with the GNU Emacs editor. It is a thorough guide that will also "grow" with you: as you become more proficient, this book will help you learn how to use Emacs more effectively. It takes you from basic Emacs usage (simple text editing) to moderately complicated customization and programming. The third edition of Learning GNU Emacs describes Emacs 21.3 from the ground up, including new user interface features such as an icon-based toolbar and an interactive interface to Emacs customization. A new chapter details how to install and run Emacs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, including tips for using Emacs effectively on those platforms. Learning GNU Emacs, third edition, covers: * How to edit files with Emacs * Using the operating system shell through Emacs * How to use multiple buffers, windows, and frames * Customizing Emacs interactively and through startup files * Writing macros to circumvent repetitious tasks * Emacs as a programming environment for Java, C++, and Perl, among others * Using Emacs as an integrated development environment (IDE) * Integrating Emacs with CVS, Subversion and other change control systems for projects with multiple developers * Writing HTML, XHTML, and XML with Emacs * The basics of Emacs Lisp The book is aimed at new Emacs users, whether or not they are programmers. Also useful for readers switching from other Emacs implementations to GNU Emacs.

The Cathedral & the Bazaar is a must for anyone who cares about the future of the computer industry or the dynamics of the information economy. Already, billions of dollars have been made and lost based on the ideas in this book. Its conclusions will be studied, debated, and implemented for years to come. According to Bob Young, "This is Eric Raymond's great contribution to the success of the open source revolution, to the adoption of Linux-based operating systems, and to the success of open source users and the companies that supply them".