Re: How many App Types R there?

On 31 Jan., 03:34, Crash <thewar...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've written GUI's and Console Apps for Linux (in C++), but now I'm
wondering about more advanced programming on Linux. What kind of
apps can be created on linux? I see many apps / services starting at
boot up, - cool, how can I create those (certainly there are no GUI's
or Consoles needed for those types of programs?

Get a good UNIX book and read the chapter about "Daemons".
The difference to normal programs are about 5 lines of code.

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