I am getting that book tomorrow too. Makes sure you get the 2nd edition. I am also reading another 2 books. Operating Systems with Linux by John O'gorman (Palgrave) and Linux Internals by Moshe Bar. Moshe's book is more technical and I find it quite useful. <quote who="devnetfs"> > 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/ > -- eMail: eugeneteo@eugeneteo.net, eugeneteo@null.cc.uic.edu gpg pub_key: http://null.cc.uic.edu/~eugeneteo/eugeneteo.asc main(i){putchar(182623909>>(i-1)*5&31|!!(i<7)<<6)&&main(++i);} Linux Users Group, Singapore Forum - http://forum.lugs.org.sg -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
