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We are now associated with Amazon.com so that you can order some of these books directly from them. Ordering from these "Order from Amazon" links is a way of helping to -fund the OpenBSD project +fund the OpenBSD project.
"Berkeley UNIX" (now known as "BSD", for Berkeley Software Distribution) is so widely known that there is no need to list @@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ Some of the user guides cover exclusively the System V version, or some specific implementation such as Solaris, Linux, or whatever, while others try to be general. There are some that cover Berkeley UNIX. -UNIX Made Easy is one general book. +
UNIX Made Easy is one general book that +is said to be good, though we've not tested it. Order from Amazon.
Two BSD-specific UNIX user's guides still in print are:
An older book which still sheds much light on the philosophy +of programmi UNIX is The UNIX Programming Environment, +by Kernighan and Pike. It is not specific to BSD, but most of it applies. +Order from Amazon.
The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System @@ -104,7 +109,7 @@ everything you wanted to know about how the system operates. Not 100% applicable, but probably the closest there is to an overall system internals manual for OpenBSD. -Order from Amazon.com +Order from Amazon
The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD Unix Operating System Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick @@ -129,7 +134,7 @@ and provides a comprehensive annotated collection of source code. Not all of it applies to modern versions of OpenBSD, of course, but you can still learn a lot from it. -Order it from Amazon.com +Order from Amazon
Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition with Source Code, Peer-to-Peer ommunications, 1996. ISBN 1-57398-013-7. @@ -141,11 +146,11 @@ UNIX hackers cut their code-teeth on. Recommended as a good introduction to how a timesharing OS works, if you've not been inside one before. Substantially shorter than the McKusick book above. -Order from Amazon.com +Order from Amazon