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So we all know Charles Petzold's "Programming for Windows" is the book to turn to for everything Win32. But what about the Linux/Unix APIs? I know literally nothing about them, and would like to get started working with them. What's the definitive resource for Linux/Unix API programming?

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The man pages, really. (The official POSIX documentation is also published by the Open Group; I refer to it often.)

For GUI programming specifically, Gtk+ is the canonical toolkit for Linux; it has online documentation, but I don't know anything about unofficial introductions to it -- I had to get thrown in the deep end. Fortunately the deep end of Gtk+ isn't as deep as the deep end of Win32, partly because because the Gtk folks can actually say "fuck you, this is _going away_, so stop fucking using it".

X11 and Xt have books about them, but they're all very old -- if you're programming directly against X11 in 2012 you need to seriously reflect on your life choices, and if you're programming against Xt in 2012 just kill yourself with a gun instead, it'll be less painful.