On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 05:38:52PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Having read all the OpenBSD specific books I could get my hands on > I intend to dig a bit deeper now. > > After checking the list on http://www.openbsd.org/books.html I > intended to buy > > The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System > by McKusick et al. > (ISBN 0-2015-4979-4) from 1996 > > but then found that there is also a newer book called > > The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System > by McKusick et al. > (ISBN 0-2017-0245-2) from 2004 > > As http://www.openbsd.org/books.html states that the "4.4" book > is "Not 100% applicable, but probably the closest there is to an > overall system internals manual for OpenBSD." I tried to find any > OpenBSD specific comparisons ("4.4" versus "FreeBSD") to find out > which one is to be preferred (from an OpenBSD point of view).
AFAIK from some developer mails here and if I remember correctly, the 4.4 book is more apropriate (did i get this word right?) than the FreeBSD one. If you want to check and get a better idea... both float around in various filesharing networks. Tobias > [...]
