Reddit reviews Operating System Concepts, Seventh Edition

The best part is it's from the first (or second) chapter of this textbook which is very, very widely used.

Sure beats the hell out of DINOSAURS?!

The source in the littleosbook builds on itself each chapter. However, it's important to know that the littleosbook, osdev wiki and most online resources aren't necessarily "tutorials" after the bootloader and bare-bones stages. Any later information is going to be more abstract and guidance. If you need in depth assistance with osdev, you'll want to invest in one (or more) of the following:

• Operating Systems Concepts
  
• Design and Implementation of FreeBSD
  
• Linux Kernel Development
  
• Any of the open courseware courses on operating systems provided by MIT, Stanford or UMass on YouTube.
  
  And a lot of your personal time.

This was my book for a 400-level class. I still own it, but it looks ridiculous.

I'm partial to my copy of Operating System Concepts, which features a nice watercolor painting of dinosaurs on the front cover. (Every edition has a dinosaur theme. I'm not sure why. And no, there are no references to dinosaurs in the text.) For a textbook, the cover is beautiful.

Operating System Concepts

I learned it from the dinosaur book:

http://amzn.com/1118063333

If you are resourceful you can find this book for free. Or you can get older versions for very cheap (http://amzn.com/0471694665) and the relevant concepts are still pretty much the same.

I should mention I never went to lecture and learned everything from "operating systems concepts" 7th edition http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0471694665/ref=pd_aw_sbs_3?pi=SL500_SY115 and I loved it.

No, that's operating systems.

Here are a couple books I have. The author of the first one was a teacher of mine a while back. She really knows her stuff. That book in particular is good for explaining all the protocols involved and how the packets are put together.

http://www.amazon.com/TCP-Illustrated-Protocols-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0321336313/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382132562&sr=1-1&keywords=tcp+ip+illustrated


This second book is more general networking stuff. Still some really good reference material.

http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Network-Modern-Kaufmann-Networking/dp/0123745411/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382132562&sr=1-7&keywords=tcp+ip+illustrated

And for operating system basics, this is a good all-rounder:

http://www.amazon.com/Operating-Concepts-Seventh-Abraham-Silberschatz/dp/0471694665/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382132818&sr=1-4&keywords=operating+system+concepts

And for *nix because it is important and nobody thinks about it:

http://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Linux-System-Administration-Handbook/dp/0131480057/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382132917&sr=1-1&keywords=Linux+System+administration

Might not be the best approach, but maybe start with an OS internals book . They're always relevant, even when the actual underlying algorithms of an OS change.

See OS Principles by Silberschatz.

I used to read the linux docs and not understand what half the terminology meant until reading an OS book. Although I used this book which is far more rigorous in terms of theory.

I'd say CLRS is the most fundamental, since all CS is built on algorithms.

For architecture/systems people (my area):

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by Patterson and Hennessy. Their other book Computer Organization and Design is excellent as well (and should be read first).

All books by Andrew Tanenbaum. His distributed systems, OS, and network books are excellent reads.

The Dinosaur book for OSes.

I also really like Smith/Nair for Virtual Machines. It is a new book and is not among the classics yet, but it is great.

For memory, caches, and disks, I recommend Jacob. It is also a newer book, but is essential to understand the Von Neumann bottleneck and possible solutions.

And, of course, the dragon book for getting started compilers. Then Ken Kennedy for advanced compilers.


And as a side note:

For AI, Russell and Norvig is required reading.

For type systems, Pierce is awesome.