From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 15:57:07 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 E5DBF1065670 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:57:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.78.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8886E8FC1D for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:57:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91FD128469; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:57:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 480181CC35; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:57:04 -0400 (EDT) To: FreeBSD Questions , questions@freebsd.org References: <10549b080807220809n3d98be9fte062d83d32d3b1d7@mail.gmail.com> <48874DF0.7060109@daleco.biz> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:57:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48874DF0.7060109@daleco.biz> (Kevin Kinsey's message of "Wed\, 23 Jul 2008 10\:27\:44 -0500") Message-ID: <44iquwpp9r.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: 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 15:57:08 -0000 Kevin Kinsey writes: > 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. Quite correct. > And, not only that, > but it's about 4.4BSD (1993?), so the exact OS described is quite old*; Not quite correct. The more recent edition was retitled to more accurately denote the fact that it covers FreeBSD (5). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/