The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

[Lowell Gilbert]

Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> writes:

> FreeBSD Questions wrote:
>> This book was printed in August 2004.  This predates FBSD 5, and I
>> know there were some significant changes between the 4.x and 5.x
>> branches.  We've progressed further and are now into version 7.  How
>> well does this book apply to more current versions of FreeBSD, such as
>> version 7?
>
> I stand ready for correction, but "Design & Implementation" is mostly
> about, well, the design of the system itself ... not an operational
> manual but a programmer's guide to OS internals.

Quite correct.

>                                                   And, not only that,
> but it's about 4.4BSD (1993?), so the exact OS described is quite old*;

Not quite correct.  The more recent edition was retitled to more
accurately denote the fact that it covers FreeBSD (5).


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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
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