Now, I am waiting for a book on the history of BSD (McKusick wrote a book chapter on BSD history, but something more in-depth would be very cool) Else, books by Michael Lucas are considered good (I have not read them myself). For a more technical, in-depth introduction to the BSD kernel there is the devil book, second edition (“The design and implementation of the 4.4BSD operating system”, by McKusick et al.) Some programming knowledge is required, though. In english, there is the FreeBSD handbook for… well, FreeBSD use and administration.
Some folks volunteered to start one in english (see ).įor you french readers, there is an *excellent* book on BSD by Emmanuel Dreyfus : “BSD : cahier de l’admin” (seconde édition). Otherwise, since a few years, there is a BSD magazine in Japan (and it is written… in japanese, of course). It was somewhat redundant with the articles published on the website. There was a print edition of DaemonNews, but it does not exist anymore (only a few issues were released). By the way, does anyone know of any BSD magazines, or some good BSD books to buy?
