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| Understanding the Linux Kernel | 
 enlarge | Authors: Daniel Bovet, Marco Cesati
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 20479
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 942
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.8 x 1.7
ISBN: 0596005652
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.432
EAN: 9780596005658
ASIN: 0596005652
Publication Date: November 17, 2005
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 Experienced sysadmin topics October 22, 2008
This book is excellent way to get know how Linux kernel works and what it does. For person like me, sysadmin for some years already, the book clarifies what makes operating system to behave some way or other. I will not recommend this book for any junior sysadmin, but for thous who have experience and whom are asked to help when systems work strange way the book can give really good background knowledge.
For example after reading this book I could understand slocate cronjob and page table growing relation. Of course removing slocate from cron is the fix, but knowing why it helps and what it does is related to slabs. Even monkey can fix things without understanding what he is doing or why, that is why the book is so important.
Since this and Solaris internals are only books about this subject (what I know) there is no other option than give five starts. I hope in future there will be even better and less dry kernel internal books. Meanwhile this is one of the best.
 Dry reading (Altho I am IT reading adict) May 13, 2008
The book contents are very rich but unfortunately the book was a dry read which is very rare for me calling any IT book a dry read!!
It is the ways to learn UNIX February 27, 2006
9 out of 17 found this review helpful
Everybody likes easy to read books and I also assume that learning UNIX is not necessarily has to be a struggle. This book stood up to my expectations almost perfectly: it is very well written and clearly expressed work. It does not overwhelm with technical details and does not press too much. It is VERY descriptive and takes you snoothly from subject to subject. I also followed an advise in someone's review and purchased "UNIX Essentials" DVD that is complete unix course recorded (I found on Amazon.com but since they do not ship outside US I ordered it directly from CustomFlix.com). These two nicely complement one another. You watch it and you read it. If you didn't catch it from the first try you watch it again and read it again. In two months I found myself confident to that extend that gave advises to our system administrator and he accepted them because there were subjects that he wasn't completely sure. What I can say, in three month I passed my first interview and got a job! Sure it is a way to start and there are much more advanced reading, however these two provide you with the background !
I can't overstate how much I have learned from them. Don't be naive, though. You will have to learn and memorize many things. The fact of owning neither book nor DVD will not make you knowledgeable, but if you will work it trough, trust me, you will surprise many people around!
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