How System Requests Work and How to Add Your Own SysReq (snee.la)

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[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

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

[-] ABasilPlant@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

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/

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

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