From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 11:44:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E8916A4CE for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:44:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from 82-41-27-158.cable.ubr04.edin.blueyonder.co.uk (82-41-27-158.cable.ubr04.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [82.41.27.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 633D943D31 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:44:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from cream.org (spatula.flat [192.168.0.2]) by myriad.flat (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A704BA; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:36:17 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <40141CA2.5030609@cream.org> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:44:34 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Stone References: <20040125100848.H2215@walter> In-Reply-To: <20040125100848.H2215@walter> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org cc: HarryH Subject: Re: A good BSD Text Book? X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:44:29 -0000 Jason Stone wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > >>Can anyone recommend a/some really good BSD (4.8) books/manuals, for not >>only a BSD beginner, but for someone that will really get into detail in >>a short time? > > > _Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System_ by McKusick _et > al_ is wonderful. It starts out at a level that's easy enough, even if > you have almost no experience working with a unix kernel, but it goes very > deep into the kernel internals until you really havea very good > understanding of the system. > > It's somewhat old, but it's still totally relevent, so don't be put off > just by the age. Design and Implementation is great, I've got that too, but only if you're interested in the system's internals - I didn't get that impression from the OP's message. Also - I think it's *mostly* relevent not, "totally", relevent. Things have changed in FreeBSD since those days I think, but the foundations are still the same and it's all useful information reguardless. Andrew