From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 18 17: 1:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6191D1509A for ; Tue, 18 May 1999 17:01:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA04130; Wed, 19 May 1999 09:31:31 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA05139; Wed, 19 May 1999 09:31:31 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 09:31:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Oscar Bonilla Cc: Mark Holloway , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (Book) Design & Imp. of 4.4BSD Message-ID: <19990519093131.K89091@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990518175216.F372@fisicc-ufm.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990518175216.F372@fisicc-ufm.edu>; from Oscar Bonilla on Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:52:16PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 18 May 1999 at 17:52:16 -0600, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 04:42:43PM -0700, Holloway, Mark wrote: >> >> There is a book that I have been eyeing for a while [at Borders] called: >> Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System. >> >> I truly love the BSD operating system. I invested money into SUN and SGI >> equipment in my home network but I still feel *BSD is the worlds most >> powerful OS. I want to learn as much about the structure of BSD as >> possible. I want to learn about the guts of BSD. I have The Complete >> FreeBSD book which has its place on my desk.. >> >> I want to know if "Design..." is worth buying. Has anyone read this book? >> I appreciate the feedback! > > yes. it's worth it. rumor has it that mckusick is (re)writing the book > for FreeBSD... It's more than a rumour. He's doing it. I don't know what the time frame is like, though. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message