On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 06:30:50 -0800, Linda Walsh <suse@tlinx.org> wrote:
It's a very good read about OS design and internals -- at least as good as the Unix OS books and loads better than the BSD OS books --
I tend to disagree. The classic BSD 4.3 book wasn't bad, at least in it's original. I first made the error of buying the German translation about twenty years ago and that was a desaster as the translator had somehow kept the english way of construting sentences so they really only made sense when translated back to English. This was my first book about the implementation of an OS, later followed by the book about OS/2.
I use it often -- and have contributed to it as well. However it has some competing goals that make it hard to be excellent in all things:
IMO it doesn't need to be excellent. It's most prominent feature is that it's easily quotable via cut&paste or referenced via URL.
But just for you -- I looked, and a used paperback edition of the 5th (good for most stuff up through Vista -- even into Win7... though the 6th came out in April of this year), can be had for $2.08: (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/listing/2687470011255 ).
Thanks, but I had looked myself and Barnes & Noble shipping&handling is a bit expensive for Germany. But Amazon Marketplace has the used hard cover for 10 including s&h. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org