On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 05:15:29PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 03:00:18PM -0700, "Young, Guy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > I am computer science major at Regis University currently taking an > > operating system class. I have a project do either an a operating system or > > comparing operating systems. I was curious if you could send me some > > information on the nuts and bolts of how debian works. > > Hello, > > Released versions of Debian use the Linux kernel; the full source to this > kernel is available from ftp.kernel.org or from its mirrors. Technical > documentation (aside from that in Documentation/) used to be findable on
as far as Debian.. well there's dpkg specs, and http://www.debian.org/devel is probably helpful. as far as UNIX.. Might I recommend "The Design of the UNIX Operating System", Bach, Maurice J. Prentice Hall It's small, and fairly generic (not too BSD or SysV-ish). Apart from that.. there's the LDP www.linuxdoc.org which has numerous excellent GUIDES and HOWTO's Use the topical index, not the alphabetic one and you'll find some good texts. I recall there's one about linux 2.4 internals but last I checked it was not complete. If you just want a generic overview of lots of operating systems http://www.operatingsystems.net is great for that. Unfortunately this site is going down soon, but I archived it *looks* somewhere, contact me if you need it, I'd probably stick it up somewhere public, but wouldn't want my server swamped either. - brian. -- Brian Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian/GNU Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org LPSG "member" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lpsg.org -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
