The Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: UNIX Internals

Guest author Val Henson writes: "Back in 2001, I landed my (then) dream job as a full-time Linux kernel developer and distribution maintainer for a small embedded systems company. I was thrilled - and horrified. I'd only been working as a programmer for a couple of years and I was sure it was only a matter of time before my new employer figured out they'd hired an idiot. The only solution was to learn more about operating systems, and quickly. So I pulled out my favorite operating systems textbook and read and re-read it obsessively over the course of the next year." Click below (subscribers only) for a review of that textbook.

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