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Date:      Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:30:11 -0700
From:      garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        "Jorge Mario G. Mazo" <murcielako@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Good Operating systems book?
Message-ID:  <h8k6h873mk.6h8@mail.opusnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050922191101.86254.qmail@web50113.mail.yahoo.com> (Jorge Mario G. Mazo's message of "Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:11:01 -0500 (CDT)")
References:  <20050922191101.86254.qmail@web50113.mail.yahoo.com>

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"Jorge Mario G. Mazo" <murcielako@yahoo.com> writes:

> I would like to hear what books are good for newbies like me!

Some good reading to get exposed to some history and culture as well
as some high-level discussion of programming is "The Art of UNIX
Programming" by Eric S.  Raymond 2004 Addison Wesley ISBN
0-13-142901-9; ESR tends to be a Linux guy but you wouldn't know it
from this book.  He includes a fair number of small-paragraph quotes
from some UNIX pioneers.  There's more "whys" in the book than "hows".
And cheap by today's standards at 40 USD.  525p.




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