Hi all Is the following book still relevant to FreeBSD 7.X and upcoming FreeBSD 8.X? Is there a 2nd edition coming soon? The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System By Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil Published Aug 2, 2004 by Addison Wesley Professional. 1st. Edition ISBN-10: 0-201-70245-2 http://www.informit.com/title/0201702452 Many thanks in advance. Kind regards Unga ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
Tom Evans
2008-Mar-14 15:58 UTC
The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System
On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 07:41 -0700, Unga wrote:> Hi all > > Is the following book still relevant to FreeBSD 7.X > and upcoming FreeBSD 8.X? Is there a 2nd edition > coming soon? > > The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating > System > By Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil > Published Aug 2, 2004 by Addison Wesley Professional. > 1st. Edition > ISBN-10: 0-201-70245-2 > http://www.informit.com/title/0201702452 > > Many thanks in advance. > > Kind regards > Unga > >It isn't completely up-to date, as it covers FreeBSD 5, but 5 marked the introduction of the smp-ng code, so it is not hugely incorrect. I recently acquired it and am finding it very useful and informative. Cheers Tom -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20080314/9b0021d8/attachment.pgp
Marc spitzer
2008-Mar-14 16:41 UTC
The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:41:30 -0700 (PDT) Unga <unga888@yahoo.com> wrote:> Hi all > > Is the following book still relevant to FreeBSD 7.X > and upcoming FreeBSD 8.X? Is there a 2nd edition > coming soon? > > The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating > System > By Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil > Published Aug 2, 2004 by Addison Wesley Professional. > 1st. Edition > ISBN-10: 0-201-70245-2 > http://www.informit.com/title/0201702452According to George V. Neville-Neil yes it is, I asked him that exact question at a unigroup meeting yesterday. marc XS-- Marc spitzer <mspitzer@gmail.com>
Jeremie Le Hen
2008-Mar-20 20:50 UTC
The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System
Hi, On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 07:41:30AM -0700, Unga wrote:> Is the following book still relevant to FreeBSD 7.X > and upcoming FreeBSD 8.X? Is there a 2nd edition > coming soon? > > The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating > System > By Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil > Published Aug 2, 2004 by Addison Wesley Professional. > 1st. Edition > ISBN-10: 0-201-70245-2 > http://www.informit.com/title/0201702452FWIW there has been rumours about the next edition of this book covering a recenter version. That's all I know :). Regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
Robert Joosten
2008-Mar-31 23:18 UTC
The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System
Hi Unga,> Is there a 2nd edition coming soon?Third iirc. ISBN 0201549794 was the first, although with a slightly different name. Regards, Robert PS: may I politely remind you of our mailinglist charters phrase: "No posting should be made to more than 2 mailing lists (..) ? ;-) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"