From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 04:45:29 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 8044916A4B3 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hutcs.cs.hut.fi (hutcs.cs.hut.fi [130.233.192.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7287D43F93 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:45:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kirma@cs.hut.fi) Received: from kirma (helo=localhost) by hutcs.cs.hut.fi with local-esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1A9NcF-0002G2-00; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:45:27 +0300 Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:45:27 +0300 (EEST) From: Jari Kirma To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: rvdalen@yahoo.co.uk 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: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:45:29 -0000 > I am starting my own FreeBSD documentation project. The name of the new > book I am writing is "FreeBSD Internals". I can't resist mentioning that Kirk McKusick and others are working on a (paper) book on FreeBSD kernel, based on FreeBSD 5 series to replace very good but aging Design and Implementation of 4.4BSD Operating System (from the FreeBSD viewpoint). Last time I talked with him (early this summer) he had a guesstimate that it'd be complete next summer. OTOH, predicting is hard, especially predicting the future. ;) I'm sure waiting for this book... There's also FreeBSD Architecture Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/index.html) which supposedly works well as a "patch set" for the 4.4BSD book for the folks that already feel reasonably comfortable with kernel concepts. -kirma