The Design of the Unix Operating System by Maurice Bach is readable and provides a very good high level overview that overlaps Linux. https://archive.org/detai

The Design of the Unix Operating System by Maurice Bach is readable and provides a very good high level overview that overlaps Linux. https://archive.org/details/DesignUNIXOperatingSystem/page/n1/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/DesignUNIXOperatingSystem/page/n... Operating Systems, Three Easy Pieces is a reasonable book about operating systems in general. https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ If you are going to run Linux, I recommend Ubuntu as the easy path. There are good arguments for other distros. But you probably don’t need an argument.