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Binding: Paperback
Format: Bargain Price
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 592
Publication Date: 1999-10-20
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Something's Gone Terribly Wrong Here
Comment: The product is an iPod dock. The reviews and descritions are for a book on Linux and a guide to cooking with marijuana. What can I say? It doesn't inspire confidence.
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Summary: 2 stars because i don't use it much
Comment: i bought this book with ambitions of teaching myself linux internals or being able to read the print version of the source for reference. if find myself frequenting online groups and threads for more and better answers than the book provides. also the kernel is older than the current 2.4x. in particular i was looking for CIFS vfs stuff which wasn't in this at all (but is in 2.4x).
so two stars because i haven't been able to use it much. others may find it more relevant in their "core" areas.
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Summary: Food for Thought
Comment: If you get bored by regular bookstore computer books, and feel humiliated, then this is a good book for you.
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Summary: Diversity of responses
Comment: While the reviews for this book vary greatly, for my purposes I have found it to be a useful tool and reference guide. I look forward to future addtions.
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Summary: Babbling
Comment: I completely subscribe by the long list of this book's shortcomings mentioned by the previous reviewers (total lack of coverage for the IP stack, for one), however the one thing that gives me the most heartburn is the total and blind adoration that the author displays for his subject. Obviously, this is the only OS kernel that Mr.Maxwell is familiar with, thus he has no reference point for comparison (I would suggest NetBSD). The source code that I am looking at, deserves lots and lots of critique, to put it mildly!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Adopts and extends the method used by the famous Lion's Commentary on Unix, (ISBN 1-57398-013-7) which still is a much sought after title even 20 years after publication. Uses a horizontal format (11" x 8 3/8" trim size) which allows for exhaustive cross-referencing, space for easy-to-read columns of code, and the book to stay flat while open. Over 39,000 lines of code are excerpted and explained in detail. Includes extensive cross-referencing and architectural flow charts to enhance understanding of the structure of the code. Linux Core Kernel Commentary is currently the only commentary-style book available on the Linux core kernel. Covers the newest 2.2 version of the Linux kernel, released in January 1999.
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