From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 12 22:46:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E59C916A4B3 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 22:46:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anon.securenym.net (anon.securenym.net [209.113.101.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F0143FA3 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 22:46:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dincht@securenym.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by anon.securenym.net (8.11.7/8.11.7) id h9D5e4D03876 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.filtered; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 00:40:04 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200310130540.h9D5e4D03876@anon.securenym.net> X-Securenym: dincht From: "C. Ulrich" To: Todd Stephens In-Reply-To: <200310111011.23757.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> References: <20031011104754.99554.qmail@web86106.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200310111011.23757.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: The Peter Jennings Fan Club Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 01:39:09 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Internals e-book X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 05:46:04 -0000 On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 10:11, Todd Stephens wrote: > To get a feel for what you are getting yourself in to you could read > "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System". One > chapter is availabe for reading online at: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/design-44bsd/ Just out of curiosity, to what extent do the contents of this book describe FreeBSD as we know it today? Is the basic system itself still close enough to 4.4BSD to be a useful reference to FreeBSD? Charles Ulrich -- http://bityard.net