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Title: Linux Internals by Moshe Bar ISBN: 0-07-212598-5 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 24 July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.69 (13 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Very disorganized, careless, but not useless
Comment: This book started with incredibly many typos (and some errors). A lot of important details that I was looking for was just not explained. The author might have tried, but didn't spend enough time to make it crystal-clear. It was really amazing how some chapters have so little written, but were appended with a lot more pages of unexplained kernel (C language) header. A lot of the other material seem to be simply cut and paste from other sources.
I did learn a bit from this book after reading it through, out of desperation - without another Linux Kernel book in my hand. I still don't feel I understand what I was expecting from this book. I don't think it is worth the listed price. I think it is worth $... Not to say, a lot of the material is already out-dated, even for the 2.3 kernel.
Rating: 4
Summary: In-depth, but skipping the basics
Comment: As the introduction to the book says (by a RedHat kernel developer), this book is a "reference work to be used to look up the Linux Kernel concepts." The author mostly breezes through the basics and jumps right into the source code and hi-powered concepts such as SMP.
For a primer to the Linux source code and concepts, I found "Linux Kernel Internals" by M. Beck et al. far more useful (although it only covers Linux 2.0). That book goes through such procedures as compiling and debugging the kernel, which I really needed to know. This is not to discredit "Linux Internals", it just seems like the two books target different audiences.
Rating: 2
Summary: a scratch on the surface
Comment: This book is not a good reference for kernel internals in Linux. It has a very superficial treatment of the majority of topics. If you're expecting to use this book like the famous UNIX "Magic Garden", forget it. This book does not have any depth.
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Title: Linux File Systems by Moshe Bar ISBN: 0072129557 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 27 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Linux Kernel Programming, Third Edition by Michael Beck, Harald Bohme, Mirko Dziadzka, Ulrich Kunitz, Robert Magnus, Claus Schroter, Dirk Verworner ISBN: 0201719754 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 22 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
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Title: Understanding the Linux Kernel (2nd Edition) by Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati ISBN: 0596002130 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love ISBN: 0672325128 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 08 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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