Kernel Projects for Linux [With CDROM]

by Gary Nutt

Book Overview

With Kernel Projects for Linux, Professor Gary Nutt provides a series of 12 lab exercises that illustrate how to implement core operating system concepts in the increasingly popular Linux environment.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201612437
• ISBN13: 9780201612431
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

The Book kept its promise

I must full agree with the author's review. This book is by no means a self help reference book and hence, need to be bought by people who has the time and initiative to diligently dig through Linux literature, theory, pertinent to each excercise group.I have given 5 stars to this book because this book is what it claims to be. There are a group of projects with very nicely graded difficulty level. Each group contains very good pointers as to how to attack the problem and where to look for, in order to solve them. The absence of a full fledged solution is what I like best about this book. The author has very wisely kept back the solutions, because there is no better way to learn Linux then to look into relevant parts of the source code. But without this book the word "Relevant Parts" doesnt makes sense, because the Linux kernel is a huge chunk of code, and for any beginner its absolutely overwhelming. Its even hard to decide, that where to start reading the source code. Thats where this book is very very helpful. Each excercise exposes the reader to a very well defined part of the kernel, and the reader gets a thorough understanding after she has successfully solved that part. I feel that this book is one of its kind in the market. However the book couldve done without the fundamentals, because cramming linux or any UNIX like OS fundamentals in 49 pages is a sheer compromise. Instead the book couldve had some more problems, to span the entire width of Linux.

the best for kernel novices

This title is the best introduction to Linux kernel. Most of the Linux kernel books consider that readers are experts to operating systems concepts or maybe that they belong to the Linux code maintainers "ring". This certainly is not the case with "Linux Kernel Projects" where before each exercise every theme is explained well to the averange reader.