Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-08-08 Thread mcassar
A few years later about 6 months after the book went out of print I actually bought a box of 20 of the books for something like a dollar a book, from a remainder dealer, just to have a future cache of them that I could give away. Kind of funny to think about that being almost a decade

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-08-08 Thread Bob Hall
A few years later about 6 months after the book went out of print I actually bought a box of 20 of the books for something like a dollar a book, from a remainder dealer, just to have a future cache of them that I could give away. I probably wouldn't be using FBSD now if it wasn't for your

RE: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-08-07 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gonzalo Nemmi Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:06 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System Actually .. I'd be more than willing

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-24 Thread FreeBSD Questions
Thank you all for your input. I'm studying up on OS design and implementation for my own personal edification, so I started reading my old college Tanenbaum text Modern Operating Systems. Then I wanted to learn specifically about FreeBSD, so The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread FreeBSD Questions
Yet your point is completly valid one.. and that's why The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System is the only book that I've been hesitant on buying so far ... Lucas (Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition), Lavigne (The Best of FreeBSD Basics), Kong (BSD rootkits), Lehey (Download

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread Dave
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 08:12:02AM -0400, FreeBSD Questions wrote: Yet your point is completly valid one.. and that's why The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System is the only book that I've been hesitant on buying so far ... Lucas (Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition), Lavigne

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread Manolis Kiagias
FreeBSD Questions wrote: And what about Absolute FreeBSD? It's updated for FreeBSD 7, so I know it's current. Is it a good book? Is it worth the read? How valuable is its content? (I know I'm asking some very subjective questions, but if I'm going to spend hundreds of $$$ to build my

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread dfeustel
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 04:12:51PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: FreeBSD Questions wrote: And what about Absolute FreeBSD? It's updated for FreeBSD 7, so I know it's current. Is it a good book? Is it worth the read? How valuable is its content? (I know I'm asking some very subjective

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread darko gavrilovic
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:12 AM, FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: details like the nitty-gritty of configuing sendmail, apache, samba, NFS, etc? You might want to look at specific books targeting that software. Check o'rielly.For example http://search.oreilly.com/?q=sendmail

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
FreeBSD Questions wrote: This book was printed in August 2004. This predates FBSD 5, and I know there were some significant changes between the 4.x and 5.x branches. We've progressed further and are now into version 7. How well does this book apply to more current versions of FreeBSD, such as

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FreeBSD Questions wrote: This book was printed in August 2004. This predates FBSD 5, and I know there were some significant changes between the 4.x and 5.x branches. We've progressed further and are now into version 7. How well does this book apply

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread James Tanis
Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stand ready for correction, but Design Implementation is mostly about, well, the design of the system itself ... not an operational manual but a programmer's guide to OS internals. And, not only that, but it's about 4.4BSD (1993?), so the exact OS

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread Aggelidis Nikos
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Gonzalo Nemmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008 15:23:15 Erik Trulsson wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:09:17AM -0400, FreeBSD Questions wrote: This book was printed in August 2004. This predates FBSD 5, and I know there were some

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:09:17AM -0400, FreeBSD Questions wrote: This book was printed in August 2004. This predates FBSD 5, and I know there were some significant changes between the 4.x and 5.x branches. We've progressed further and are now into version 7. How well does this book apply

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-22 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 15:23:15 Erik Trulsson wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:09:17AM -0400, FreeBSD Questions wrote: This book was printed in August 2004. This predates FBSD 5, and I know there were some significant changes between the 4.x and 5.x branches. We've progressed further