On Mon, 2 May 2005, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote: > Quoting kroty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I'm going to buy a book about Operating Systems. I've seen two titles > > "Modern Operating Systems" (Tanenbaum) and "Operating Systems Concepts" > > (Silberschatz). I don't know wich one would be better for a newbie > > in OSs like me. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks! > > Operating system concepts is known as the ``dinosaur'' book. The problem with > it is that it doesn't cover anything in detail. It gives you the basic ideas, > but you cannot expect to have a hands-down knowledge of any operating system. > I do not known about the tanenbaum book. I would recommend to read some > MkKusick book, be it ``the design of the 44bsd system'' or ``design of the > FreeBSD system''. These will give you some more in-depth knowledge and I > believe this is better. > Even though touches a bit more on the solaris os Solaris internals seems to be a really good book about SyS5 and BSD roots and gives some nice implementations.
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