From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 15:28:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C3101065674 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:28:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B2FC8FC1B for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:28:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6NFS0HU035961; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:28:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daleco.biz Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ezekiel.daleco.biz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id J9vUUNf3KSW4; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:27:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz (dsl.daleco.biz [209.125.108.70]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6NFRoFe035954; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:27:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <48874DF0.7060109@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:27:44 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080719 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions References: <10549b080807220809n3d98be9fte062d83d32d3b1d7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <10549b080807220809n3d98be9fte062d83d32d3b1d7@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:28:05 -0000 FreeBSD Questions wrote: > This book was printed in August 2004. This predates FBSD 5, and I > know there were some significant changes between the 4.x and 5.x > branches. We've progressed further and are now into version 7. How > well does this book apply to more current versions of FreeBSD, such as > version 7? I stand ready for correction, but "Design & Implementation" is mostly about, well, the design of the system itself ... not an operational manual but a programmer's guide to OS internals. And, not only that, but it's about 4.4BSD (1993?), so the exact OS described is quite old*; however, it's of great value not only as history but as 4.4BSD has fed code into not only FreeBSD, but NetBSD, OpenBSD, and others. (see /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree). If that's not of interest to you I'd not worry about this book --- no offence to Mr. McKusick et al, of course. Kevin Kinsey *Notwithstanding the fact that most likely the reason the last edition was printed in '04 was because they'd updated it to reflect changes in the previous 10 years. Perhaps another edition around 2013-14? -- I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage