Re: linux kernel book review?

[devnetfs <devnetfs@yahoo.com>]

Thanks Vladimir for your info. I think I will buy the book.

Regards,
A.

--- "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vladimir@bach.leonora.org> wrote:
> >>>>> "d" == devnetfs  <devnetfs@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> 
>   > Hello,
>   > Has anybody read the 2nd Edition of the book: "Understanding the
> Linux
>   > Kernel" by Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati? Is it worth a buy?
> 
>   > I have the 1st edition. Was wondering if this new edition also
> has 
>   > any details of upcomming 2.5 kernel (as the 1st edition has
> details
>   > about 2.4)?
> 
> I bought it because it is updated through 2.4.18. No mention of 2.5
> that
> I've seen.
> 
> For a newbie, it is indispensable. I wouldn't know where to start
> otherwise. I'd give it four (out of five) stars. My only complaint is
> that I think it's shy on diagrams which I think help a lot. (A
> picture
> is worth yada yada...)
> 
> From the book's preface:
> 
>    So we had to make some choices about the parts to describe. This
> is a
>    rough assessment of our decisions:
> 
>      * We describe process and memory management fairly thoroughly.
>      * We cover the Virtual File System and the Ext2 and Ext3
>        filesystems, although many functions are just mentioned
> without
>        detailing the code; we do not discuss other filesystems
>        suppported by Linux.
>      * We describe device drivers, which account for a good part of
> the
>        kernel, as fas as the kernel interface is concerned, but do
> not
>        attempt analysis of each specific driver, including the
> terminal
>        drivers.
>      * We cover the inner layers of networking in a rather sketchy
> ways,
>        since this area deserves a whole new book by itself.
> 
> --- Vladimir
> 
>
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