On Sun, 7 May 2000, Alkis Evlogimenos wrote:
> I was wondering if this book is far too off the current state of
> FreeBSD. Are there fundamental differences between the design of 4.4BSD
> and FreeBSD?
There are some pretty large differences. The VM has changed. Drivers
have changed.
> Can you also recommend any other books describing the internals of the
> FreeBSD OS which are a closer match than the above?
Nope. It's still the best ref. Ask me again in 9 months, maybe there'll
be a different answer, because another one is in the works (I think David
Greenman is one of the authors of a new one) but reading that book will
help a whole lot, it's very definitely not a waste of time.
>
> Thanks.
>
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