Hi Kyle; On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 11:10 -0400, Kyle Spaans wrote: > Just a suggestion: > I believe I'm in the same boat as yourself - trying to learn about the > Linux Kernel. > > I've been perusing the source code as well, but what I realized I was > lacking was an understanding of Operating Systems in general. > > So another option to consider - it's certainly helping me - is to > pickup an introductory OS textbook and work your way through that > while you look at the Linux source code. > > gl & hf > I have "The Linux Kernel Primer" which I have read from cover-to-cover. As well, I have completely read over the last two years: Bibliogarphy "Computer Organization and Design" Second Edition : The Hardware/Software Interface" by David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" by John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, David Goldberg Bach, Maurice J.; "The Design of the Unix Operating System;" Prentice-Hall Canada Inc.; Pub. 1986; ISBN 0-13-201799-7 025; DUOS Rodriguez, Claudia Salzberg; Fischer, Gordon; Smolski, Steven; "The Linux Kernel Primer, A Top-Down Approach for x86 and Power PC Architectures"; Pub 2006; Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference; ISBN 0-13-118163-7; LKP Stallings Ph.D., William; "Operating Systems Internals and Design Priciples"; Fourth Edition, Pub 2001; Prentice Hall, Inc.; ISBN 0-13-031999-6; OSIDP4 Stallings William; "Computer Organization and Architecture, Designing for Performance", Sixth Edition; Pub 2003; Prentice Hall, Inc.; ISBN 0-13-035119-9; COA Tanenbaum, Andrew S.; "Modern Operating Systems", Second Edition; Pub 2001; Prentice Hall, Inc.; ISBN 0-13-031358-0; MOS Plus a couple of high school level Physics and electronics as refreshers. I have a couple of other texts I use for double checking. I am try to put all that together in my head as a simplified modal, so that as I pursue kernel questions I have an entry point to delve and dive from. -- Regards Bill; Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.3 Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
