From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 5 13:26:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03990 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:26:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03961 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:26:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA01336; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 10:25:16 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <199811052125.KAA01336@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Razal Minhas Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 10:25:16 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Any books on FreeBSD w/h source code?? Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 6 Nov 98, at 1:34, Razal Minhas wrote: > Dear all, > > I really need to get my hands on the source code of FreeBSD > (specifically 2.2.7 if possible) in a published *book* form. Why in a published book form? The source code is freely available. You could just print it out. > Actually I have a senior year project at college in which we have to > implement *process migration* on FreeBSD by ourselves. And how would a book containing the source code help that? I can't see how process migration requires printed source code. > I got my hands on a wonderful book on minix, the source code, the concepts > implemented and everything, but ... its FreeBSD that I need. > Something/anything similiar available on FreeBSD? So far the only book > specifically on FreeBSD that I have heard of is "The Complete FreeBSD". > Will this be of any use in this regard? It might. But it doesn't contain the source code. It will help you understand some things about FreeBSD. > How similiar is FreeBSD to the other BSDs that we hear about? Maybe I > could get a book on one of those then? >From what I understand, they all have common areas when it comes to concepts and source code. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message