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
