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Ask HN: Linux Internals Book (online or paper)?
I'm interested in refreshing my internals by reading through high-level conceptual descriptions and THEN looking at source code (not looking at source code as a step 1, sorry), but the most popular / respected literature out there is outdated.
Robert Love (who posts a lot on Quora too, incidentally) hasn't updated Linux Kernel Development since 2010, and Understanding the Linux Kernel is from 2005.
Are there any other great sources people recommend, that are NOT necessarily only focused on programming?
I'm a Sys Admin interested in being able to do low-level tuning, I can read C code but that can't be my primary mode of taking in this sort of information.
Thanks
- reacharavindh 9y agoI'm interested in hearing an answer to this question as well. Although I took a grad course 3 years ago that was essentially walking through the Linux kernel to understand how a kill system call works. It was a fascinating ride, but I have forgotten most of what we did. I have read many posts from [1] related to understanding how it works in Linux. You may enjoy it. Also, I bookmarked [2] to read later, but the later never came.. Good luck. (1) - https://jvns.ca https://jvns.ca (2) - https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/ https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/