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To: Leon Kaplan <kaplan@CSlab.tuwien.ac.at>
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On Thu, 25 Jul 1996, Leon Kaplan wrote:

> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 08:45:00 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Leon Kaplan <kaplan@CSlab.tuwien.ac.at>
> To: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Good FreeBSD book (fwd)
> 
> Hi!
> 
> > 
> > I've been asking around for weeks, and from what I get, the only book for
> > FreeBSD is the one you have. (I don't mean the only good one, I mean the
> > only one in existence.) Some people recommend various BSD4.4 books, but
> > the ones I've found are little more than a hard copy of the man pages.
> > 
> > One other book that has been frequently recommended to me is "UNIX System
> > Administration Handbook" by Evi Nemeth, et.al. 2nd edition. (NOT 1st).
> > 
> > I ordered it from www.bookpool.com, who I think has the best price
> > available, even with the UPS 3-day charges included.
> > 
> Ok, this is not a FreeBSD specific book, but it is a classical and in
> in my opinion a very very good one too. Its called:
> 
> The Design and implementation of the BSD 4.3 Operating System
> 
> I forgot the author. Again - I don't know how much the FreeBSD we are using
> differs from BSD 4.3 but this book will give you a very good and detailed
> understanding of the kernel algorithms thus you'll undertand kernel error
> messages like "data modified on freelist [...]" (this one keeps popping up
> on my system BTW - I understand it more or less, but I can't fix it ;-))))
> 
> 
> greetings,
> Leon Aaron Kaplan.
> 

I recently bought "The Design and implementation of the BSD 4.4 Operating 
System".

I forgot the name of the publisher
the authors:
Mc Kusik
Quaterman
+ 2 others
 

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