August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
896 pages
28h 17m
English
MCKUSICK, MARSHALL KIRK, ET AL. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. 1996.
This book is a good reference for detailed information about the configuration and internals of the BSD kernel. There is a new version in development that will be based on FreeBSD instead of 4.4BSD.
BECK, MICHAEL, ET AL. Linux Kernel Internals, Second Edition. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. 1998.
A few new books on the internals of the Linux kernel are available, but we still like this older one. It’s a bit outdated, but it gives a very good explanation of the kernel’s inner workings.
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