The Design And Implementation Of The FreeBSD Operating System eBook

FeeBSD -- Comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative -- truly the latest and greatest from the source!
Written by the original architect of BSD -- McKusick has been involved with the product since its' inception and knows it better than anyone!
Advantage over Linux?!? FreeBSD users are not required to make public any changes they make to the source code (unlike Linux)
The lean quality of FreeBSD also makes it attractive for embedded systems, another growth area. This book describes specifically the design and implementation of FreeBSD, which, like Linux, is an open-source system based on UNIX. FreeBSD, running on a Windows PC, is today the most widely used BSD system. The book provides a coherent overview of the system; explains key design decisions; and details the concepts, data structures, and algorithms used in implementing the system's facilities. Readers involved in technical and sales support can learn from the book the capabilities and limitations of the system; application developers can learn how to interface to the system both effectively and efficiently; systems programmers can learn how to maintain, tune, and extend the system. Written from the unique perspective of a BSD system architect (McKusick), the book delivers the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative technical information on the internal structure of the latest and most popular BSD system.