On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 5:24 AM, Antti Kantee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm happy to announce that the second edition of "The Design and
> Implementation of the Anykernel and Rump Kernels" is finally finished and
> available as a free pdf download from http://book.rumpkernel.org/
>
> Most of the discussion on the anykernel and rump kernels (Chapters 2+3) is
> unchanged from the first edition.  I find that especially delightful, since
> it means that I managed to implement something right 5+ years ago, and the
> predictions of what would be possible with rump kernels weren't just idle
> words.  The rest of the Chapters are new for this second edition.
>

Awesome! Much appreciated the effort which went into making all the
information public and needless to say clear and concise as well. I am
still reading it and so far its great although it could live with more
graphics for beautification ;)

> p.s. the epub version is not yet available, but should be at a future date.
> I simply ran out of time to fix it to compile and render properly for this
> initial release.
>

I usually use pandoc to do my conversions, so do take a look at the
demos - http://pandoc.org/demos.html for some sample workflow. I have
personally never converted from LaTeX, so cannot comment on the
quality of the output though.

> p.p.s. on a personal note, finishing the book marks the start of my
> quite-long-overdue vacation.  I will be less reachable in the coming
> month(s).
>

Hope you had a good one.

-Neeraj

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