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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The BSD book does seem interesting from a historical perspective, BSD is one of Ye Olden UN*X distros after all. Thanks for the recommendations! I think I'll try to get my hands on a dead trees version of the BSD book.

Oh and did you specifically mean "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System"? Looks like there's one for FreeBSD as well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces by Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau & Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau (University of Wisconsin-Madison) is an excellent book and used by many universities worldwide. Extremely well written and it's one of the only textbooks I've ever completed from start to end.

It's also completely free: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ooo nice, thank you for the tip.

I wonder where I could get a physical version. Somewhere other than Amazon that is, they do have it but I'd like to avoid them if at all possible because, well, Amazon. I searched Adlibris which is a Nordic online bookstore but they didn't have it, unfortunately.

I'm a fan of physical books nowadays. I read e-books for a few years but I felt like I didn't remember what I read nearly as well as I do if I read an actual paper book, and apparently there's actually some empirical evidence for this being a wider phenomenon

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

100% I'm in the same boat.

I looked into various print on demand services with binding, but they always were more hassle than just printing everything at home

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yes that's the book, though I read a older version initially.

I haven't read the free BSD version, I wonder if there's a Linux version? That would be interesting too