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Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles (5th Edition) (GOAL Series) 36 reviews
William Stallings
Prentice Hall, 2004
Excellent Product, fast service
+ On time
Book arrived in perfect condition. No markings anywhere on the book. Arrived very fast, within a few days of placing the order.
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Operating System Concepts (7th Edition) 18 reviews
Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, ...
Wiley, 2004
Opearing systems concept
+ Fairly good delivery time
+ OS Time
+ If you take a class...
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Lions' Commentary on Unix 9 reviews
John Lions
Peer-to-Peer Communications Inc., 1977
Amazing and insightful historical perspective
+ Excellent book for Unix lover
+ Complete, Yet Small Enough to Grasp
+ The Way
+ Beautiful
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Essential Linux Device Drivers (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series)7 reviews
Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran
Prentice Hall PTR, 2008
Best Linux device driver book yet
+ A must for any Linux device driver developer today.
+ embedded device drivers
+ The very BEST
+ A 'must have' for any collection serious about Linux programming applications.
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Linux System Programming: Talking Directly to the Kernel and C Library6 reviews
Robert Love
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007
Easy to read-Your first step into system programming
+ The book truly is for all developers
Up-side
Its a very easily readable book.
Unlike other heavy weight books on system programming in this book code is very simple. All the codes are on one place no extra header files.
So if you are new to system-kernel programming, like my self, this is the book for you.
I did have problem ...
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Linux Kernel Development (2nd Edition) (Novell Press) 37 reviews
Robert Love
Novell Press, 2005
Primer for transitioners to Linux
+ Excellent book and easy to read
+ Perfect Book
+ Very impressed.
+ Excellent Book
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GNU/Linux Application Programming, Second Edition (Programming Series)9 reviews
M. Tim Jones
Charles River Media, 2008
Great reference if you program for the Linux platform
+ Wonderful book
+ great book to get you going
This book covers a wide breadth of what you need to get started with Linux programming. The writing is very good and readable.
The examples though simple, are very clear and concise, and makes you understand at a fundamental level what elements of Linux you need to know.
The ones I liked in ...
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UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers17 reviews
Uresh Vahalia
Prentice Hall, 1995
The best operating systems book in existence
+ Best OS book
+ Great book tolearn about diff. flavours of UNIX
+ Great reference
+ Must have
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The Design of the Unix Operating System, Hardcover
Maurice J. Bach
P T R Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1990
This book describes the internal algorithms and the structures that form the basis of the UNIX Žoperating system and their relationship to the programmer interface. The system description is based on UNIX System V Release 2 supported by AT&T, with some features from Release 3.
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Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager (Bruce Perens' Open Source Series) 4 reviews
Mel Gorman
Prentice Hall PTR, 2004
Meets its goal
+ Nuts and bolts of Linux VM, not for beginners
+ Non-trivial subject
The book's goal "a detailed view of the Linux VM as implemented in 2.4.22" -- as I think the specification of the version to that level of detail indicates, it is not a theoretical exercise.
Given that goal the book is well structured, building up from from basic functionality and giving ...
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Understanding the Linux Kernel, Third Edition19 reviews
Daniel Bovet, Marco Cesati
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005
The comments needed by the Linux code
+ Greatly Detailed and Very Comprehensive
+ Good book
+ Awesome
+ Understanding the Linux Kernel
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, & Tools with Gradiance (pkg) (2nd Edition)
Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, ...
Addison Wesley, 2007
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Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition) (GOAL Series)28 reviews
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Prentice Hall, 2007
Interesting, accessible, humorous
+ Great Book
This book was assigned for my Operating Systems course in college this semester. It is truly a great textbook, and this is coming from a student who has read (and avoided) a lot of textbooks. It makes the subject matter very easy to understand in a variety of ways that help illustrate the concepts ...
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Linux Kernel in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))3 reviews
Greg Kroah-Hartman
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006
Great Kernel reference...
+ Excellent narrow-task guide
+ Reminded of things I'd forgotten and learned some new things too!
Nowadays its less common for a user to have to compile a kernel, but there are times that if you don't do it a given device will no work properly (or at all). Despite the huge amount of Linux distributions available none is able to fulfill every user requirement. Configuring a laptop or installing ...
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The Definitive Guide to GCC, Second Edition (Definitive Guide)8 reviews
William von Hagen
Apress, 2006
Excellent Reference
+ A lot of useful information about the gcc compiler
+ The Ultimate GCC Book
The Definitive Guide to GCC covers the ways to use the GCC Compiler to compile programs written in C, C++, Fortran, and Java. For each of these languages the author discusses how it is implemented within the GCC compiler. While all the sections of the book are good the parts I found the best were ...
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Expert C Programming82 reviews
Peter van der Linden
Prentice Hall PTR, 1994
Pure Depressing Awesomeness
+ Great book and service
+ Title says it all
+ Tremendous book
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The Linux(R) Kernel Primer: A Top-Down Approach for x86 and PowerPC Architectures (Prentice Hall Open Source ...11 reviews
Claudia Salzberg Rodriguez, Gordon Fischer, ...
Prentice Hall PTR, 2005
FINALLY
+ Beginning Linux Guy...
A book that steps through the important parts of the kernel and explains each point. Ive read other Linux kernel books before (ie: Oreillys Understanding the Linux kernel), and this book is by far the best read for the advanced user that has some programming experience and wants dive into tinkering ...
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Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition45 reviews
Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, ...
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005
ITA - La programmazione di moduli del kernel spiegata dettagliatamente
+ Best book for device drivers programming
+ Device Drivers
+ I Can do this.
+ Best Linux 2.4 Device Driver Book
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Understanding Linux Network Internals4 reviews
Christian Benvenuti
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005
The best Linux networking software book to start with
+ Broad coverage
+ TAKE THE LINUX NETWORK TOUR!
I have read a number of books on the TCP/IP protocols and their implementations; both the original Berkeley (BSD) Unix TCP/IP stack and the Linux TCP/IP stack. I must say that this is the best of all of them. This book makes the subject very approachable for the newcomer to network protocol ...
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GNU/Linux Application Programming, Second Edition (Programming Series)9 reviews
M. Tim Jones
Charles River Media, 2008
Great reference if you program for the Linux platform
+ Wonderful book
+ great book to get you going
This book covers a wide breadth of what you need to get started with Linux programming. The writing is very good and readable.
The examples though simple, are very clear and concise, and makes you understand at a fundamental level what elements of Linux you need to know.
The ones I liked in ...
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