From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 10 06:41:55 2005 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 3892216A4EF for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 06:41:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11B8D43D41 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 06:41:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) id j4A6fna4022164; Mon, 9 May 2005 23:41:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) (authenticated bits=0)j4A6fkXW025319; Mon, 9 May 2005 23:41:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <44r7gj5602.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <8cb27cbf05050708586a2b92a9@mail.gmail.com> <63c3899e050507090157ad3e93@mail.gmail.com> <8cb27cbf0505070930785d47d8@mail.gmail.com> <44r7gj5602.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <8cc5990cc666258f1a980d6760a05931@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 02:41:45 -0400 To: freebsd-questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) cc: Jon Drews Subject: Re: Learning UNIX internals 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, 10 May 2005 06:41:55 -0000 On May 7, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Yes, it will be. You'll need something more basic to start with. > While the books you asked about in your initial post will be okay, > my suggestion would be [Tanenbaum, "Modern Operating Systems", > ISBN 0130313580], which provides more of a theoretical background for > OS concepts. I'd second this recommendation. Tanenbaum's a good author... -- -Chuck