Linux is a rich programming environment, all the more so due to its adoption of the entire GNU tool set. In this article at Linux.com, Konstantin Klyagin takes a detailed but quick look at the complete GNU environment for beginning or intermediate programmers on Linux. It's a great way to get up to speed on what everything does in your system. Klyagin writes . . .

“Some people say there is nothing but the GNU way to develop software. While there is a wide set of tools a typical Linux/UNIX software developer uses in his everyday work, the GNU development tools are a complete framework. It's absolutely free and powerful. There is no problem to see their source code. And it's not worse than any other commercial 'killer-apps' widely used on other platforms. Newbie Linux programmers may be scared of new kinds of development process, but the GNU tools are your friends . . .”

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