Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> FreeBSD Questions wrote:
>> This book was printed in August 2004. This predates FBSD 5, and I
>> know there were some significant changes between the 4.x and 5.x
>> branches. We've progressed further and are now into version 7. How
>> well does this book apply to more current versions of FreeBSD, such as
>> version 7?
>
> I stand ready for correction, but "Design & Implementation" is mostly
> about, well, the design of the system itself ... not an operational
> manual but a programmer's guide to OS internals.
Quite correct.
> And, not only that,
> but it's about 4.4BSD (1993?), so the exact OS described is quite old*;
Not quite correct. The more recent edition was retitled to more
accurately denote the fact that it covers FreeBSD (5).
--
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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