   | Distinguished Member with 4,327 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Somewhere south of Hell Experience: Bringing Linux to the Masses | | Linux/Unix Reference Texts I am looking for good reference texts to buy concerning Linux, Unix, FreeBSD, etc. The deeper I dig into these OS's the more I want to know about them, and the scattered info on the net does not seem to quench my thirst.
I was wondering if anyone had some suggestions on what to get and what to stay away from before I lay my money down. Thanx
__________________ I'm not here. I am just more likely to be here then not be here. It's physics, I don't expect you to understand.   |  | Distinguished Member with 14,989 posts. | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: -71.45091, 42.27841 | | Hi OS,
I highly recommend the books by Vahalia, Stallings, and Bacon, if you want to truly understand these OSes from a systems point of view. They are especially great for their diagrams to aid understanding. The device driver books I threw in because what is an OS without device drivers, eh? The sysadmin books are for more practical useage.
Unix Internals: The New Frontiers by Uresh Vahalia; Prentice Hall (PH)
Writing a Unix Device Driver by Egan and Teixeira; Wiley (W)
The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey; Walnut Creek CDROM Books (4CDs incl.)
Linux Kernel Internals; Addison-Wesley (A-W)
Linux Device Drivers by Alessandro Rubini; O'Reilly (OR)
Operating Systems: Fourth Edition (maybe 5th by now?) by William Stallings; (PH)
Concurrent Systems: Operating Systems, Database and Distributed Systems: An Integrated Approach by Jean Bacon; (A-W)
Essential System Administration, (OR)
Distributed Unix System Administration by John R. Wetsch; R&D Books
-- Tom
P.S. Hope you have a fat wallet.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Einstein | | | Distinguished Member with 4,327 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Somewhere south of Hell Experience: Bringing Linux to the Masses | | My wallet is fat, but its content is non-existent
Thanx for the info. I will keep my eye out for these and pick them up when I got some money to spare. Thanx again! |  | Junior Member with 1 posts. | | | | You might want to try The Linux Documentation Project at: www.tldp.org
HTH
B. | | | Distinguished Member with 4,327 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Somewhere south of Hell Experience: Bringing Linux to the Masses | | Thanx for the link. This is alot more comprehensive then the little bits of info I have been finding. Bookmarked.  | | | Distinguished Member with 14,989 posts. | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: -71.45091, 42.27841 | | Another excellent book for those interested in Unix/Linux Systems Programming is:
Interprocess Communications in Unix: The Nooks & Crannies by John Shapley Gray
-- Tom | | | Distinguished Member with 14,989 posts. | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: -71.45091, 42.27841 | | Two more books I ran into that get my thumbs up:
Understanding the Linux Kernel (Paperback) 3rd Ed.
by Daniel Pierre Bovet and Marco Cesati
Published by O'Reilly
Advanced Unix Programming (2nd Ed.)
by Marc J. Rochkind
Published by Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series
-- Tom |  THIS THREAD HAS EXPIRED.
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