Thanks Vladimir for your info. I think I will buy the book. Regards, A. --- "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vladimir@bach.leonora.org> wrote: > >>>>> "d" == devnetfs <devnetfs@yahoo.com> writes: > > > > Hello, > > Has anybody read the 2nd Edition of the book: "Understanding the > Linux > > Kernel" by Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati? Is it worth a buy? > > > I have the 1st edition. Was wondering if this new edition also > has > > any details of upcomming 2.5 kernel (as the 1st edition has > details > > about 2.4)? > > I bought it because it is updated through 2.4.18. No mention of 2.5 > that > I've seen. > > For a newbie, it is indispensable. I wouldn't know where to start > otherwise. I'd give it four (out of five) stars. My only complaint is > that I think it's shy on diagrams which I think help a lot. (A > picture > is worth yada yada...) > > From the book's preface: > > So we had to make some choices about the parts to describe. This > is a > rough assessment of our decisions: > > * We describe process and memory management fairly thoroughly. > * We cover the Virtual File System and the Ext2 and Ext3 > filesystems, although many functions are just mentioned > without > detailing the code; we do not discuss other filesystems > suppported by Linux. > * We describe device drivers, which account for a good part of > the > kernel, as fas as the kernel interface is concerned, but do > not > attempt analysis of each specific driver, including the > terminal > drivers. > * We cover the inner layers of networking in a rather sketchy > ways, > since this area deserves a whole new book by itself. > > --- Vladimir > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Vladimir G. Ivanovic > http://leonora.org/~vladimir > 2770 Cowper St. > vladimir@acm.org > Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447 +1 650 678 > 8014 > > The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne. -- Chaucer __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
