From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 7 11:29:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 846AC37B651 for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 11:29:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA03370; Sun, 7 May 2000 14:29:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 14:29:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Alkis Evlogimenos Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4bsd Operating System" In-Reply-To: <39154605.6D5A9371@flashcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 7 May 2000, Alkis Evlogimenos wrote: > I was wondering if this book is far too off the current state of > FreeBSD. Are there fundamental differences between the design of 4.4BSD > and FreeBSD? There are some pretty large differences. The VM has changed. Drivers have changed. > Can you also recommend any other books describing the internals of the > FreeBSD OS which are a closer match than the above? Nope. It's still the best ref. Ask me again in 9 months, maybe there'll be a different answer, because another one is in the works (I think David Greenman is one of the authors of a new one) but reading that book will help a whole lot, it's very definitely not a waste of time. > > Thanks. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message