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Is there a Linux equivalent to “The Design and Implementation of FreeBSD”?
When people ask me how to understand the deep internals of Unix I always recommend this book.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201702452/tomontime-20
Even if they use Linux instead of *BSD, this book is the best way to learn OS internals and... well... 90% of it applies to Linux.
Many years later, has anyone written a Linux equivalent?
- efutch 14y agoYou could use the "Understanding the Linux kernel" book by Bovet and Cesari.
- asiekierka 14y agoThe Linux Programming Interface, perhaps? It's an encylopediaesque book by Michael Kerrisk.
- vimsucks 14y agoI would say Archlinux. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Compared_to_Other_Distributions https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Compared_to_Other_...
- marcoperaza 14y agoLinux Kernel Development by Robert Love is an exceptional book. http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-3rd-Edition/dp/0672329468/ref=pd_sim_b_2 http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-3rd-Edition/d...
- CyberFonic 14y agoLinux wasn't designed, it evolved ;-) I have a book on Linux which includes the v0.x? source code and a commentary. It's at my other office, so I can't grok the title nor author. It's styled like the classic John Lions books for Unix which of course was the inspiration for Linux.
- csixty4 14y agoAre you thinking about the Linux Core Kernel Commentary? http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Core-Kernel-Commentary-Knowledge/dp/1576104699 http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Core-Kernel-Commentary-Knowledge... I keep telling myself I'm going to read it, but never get around to it. At this point, the John Lions book is probably just as relevant and probably much more educational.
- potem 14y agoGentoo is very similar.