Chris Tyler

Toronto, Ontario

Chris Tyler is a programmer and Linux network administrator with a focus on the X Window System and LAMP. He has programmed in two dozen different languages over the past 20 years, and is now the Industrial Research Chair in Open Source Technology for Emerging Platforms at Seneca College, Toronto.

X Power Tools X Power Tools
by Chris Tyler
December 2007
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Ebook: $31.99

Fedora Linux Fedora Linux
by Chris Tyler
October 2006
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Ebook: $31.99

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Teaching Open Source

March 23 2009

Many people first get involved with open source while they are students, but it's rarely as a result of their formal study. Professors, open source communities, institutions, and companies have been working on introducing open source community involvement into computer... read more

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Chris Tyler

"I had the big multi-volume X Windows User's Guide years ago - amazingly enough, this packs more truly useful information into 200+ pages than that did in several larger books. I'm really impressed, and can highly recommend this."
--A.P. Lawrence, Information and Resources for Unix and Linux Systems