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23: <H1><font color=#e00000>Books about BSD</font></H1>
1.2 ian 24: <P>We are now associated with <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com"> Amazon.com</A>
25: so that you can order some of these books directly from them.
26: <EM>Ordering from these "Order from Amazon" links is a way of helping to
1.4 ian 27: fund the OpenBSD project</EM>.
1.1 ian 28: <H2>User Guides</H2>
1.3 millert 29: <P>"Berkeley UNIX" (now known as "BSD", for Berkeley Software Distribution)
1.1 ian 30: is so widely known that there is no need to list
31: the basic "how-to" books about it here - there are too many to list!
32: Some of the user guides cover exclusively the System V version, or
33: some specific implementation such as Solaris, Linux, or whatever,
34: while others try to be general. There are some that cover Berkeley UNIX.
1.4 ian 35: <P><FONT COLOR="Red">UNIX Made Easy</FONT> is one general book that
36: is said to be good, though we've not tested it.
1.2 ian 37: <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0078821738/openbsdA/">Order from Amazon</A>.
38: <P>Two BSD-specific UNIX user's guides still in print are:
39: <UL>
40: <LI><FONT COLOR=Red>Berkeley Unix: A Simple and Comprehensive Guide</FONT>.
41: <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=047161582X/openbsdA/">Order from Amazon</A>
42: <LI>The more ambitious
43: <FONT COLOR=Red>An Introduction to Berkeley Unix and ANSI C</FONT>
44: <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0130684953/openbsdA/">Order from Amazon</A>
45: </UL>
46: <P>Every advanced UNIX user will probably want a copy of
47: <FONT COLOR=Red>UNIX Power Tools</FONT>, now in its second edition.
48: <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1565922603/openbsdA/">Order from Amazon</A>
49:
50: <P>You may see reference to the <FONT COLOR=Red>4.4 BSD
51: User's Reference Manual (URM)</FONT>, O'Reilly, 1994
52: <P>This is just a reprint of the man pages for users.
53: Your OpenBSD distribution includes the online man pages,
54: which are specific to OpenBSD, and more up-to-date. So
55: you don't need this one: use the <EM>man</EM> command instead.
56:
57: <H2>Administering the OpenBSD System</H2>
58: We can't unreservedly recommend any books specifically on OpenBSD
59: Administration at present. However, if you're administering OpenBSD
60: you may also have to administer other versions of UNIX. A good
61: book on UNIX administration, with special mentions of details in
62: SunOS, Solaris, and BSDI, the commercial 4.4BSD distribution, is
63: <FONT Color=Red>UNIX System Administration Handbook</FONT>, Second Edition, by Evi Nemeth,
64: Garth Snyder, et al.
65: <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0131510517/openbsdA/">Order from Amazon</A>.
66:
67: <P><FONT COLOR=Red>4.4 BSD System Manager's Manual (SMM)</FONT>
68: O'Reilly, 1994
69: <P>Details on what you need to run a BSD system.
70: Quite a bit of this material is relevant to OpenBSD.
71: Unfortunately it is currently out of print.
72: Worse, Due to licensing restrictions from AT&T,
73: the electronic editions of these were not included in the
74: 4.4BSD distributions, so most of them are not included with OpenBSD.
75: The few that are can be found via the <A HREF="docum.html">Documents page</A>.
76:
77: <P><EM>Avoid</EM> books on installing/configuration particular "other"
78: distributions of BSD, as the installation procedures for each are
79: wildly different.
80:
81: <H2>Books on Programming Under the BSD System</H2>
82:
83: <P><FONT COLOR=Red>4.4 BSD Programmer's Reference Manual (PRM)</FONT>
84: O'Reilly, 1994
85: <P>This is a printed version of the Programmer's Manual.
86: You have the online man pages, which are specific to OpenBSD, instead.
87: Use the <EM>man</EM> command to read these!
88:
89: <P><FONT COLOR=Red>BSD-Lite 4.4 CD-ROM Companion: International Edition</FONT>
90: UC Berkeley Staff, Computer Systems Research Group; O'Reilly, 1994
91: This neat little package contains a CD-ROM with just the unbundled
92: portions of 4.4BSD-Lite-1, which not only is obsolete, but is not a
93: complete, bootable system. Also a small booklet listing contributors,
94: and the index to the printed man pages. Overall, not very useful.
95: <A HREF="orders.html">Buy an OpenBSD CD-ROM instead!</A>
96:
1.4 ian 97: <P>An older book which still sheds much light on the philosophy
1.8 ian 98: of programming UNIX is <FONT COLOR=Red>The UNIX Programming Environment</FONT>,
1.4 ian 99: by Kernighan and Pike. It is not specific to BSD, but most of it applies.
1.8 ian 100: <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=013937681X/openbsdA/">Order from Amazon</A>.
101:
102: <P>Another older book which Brian Kernighan had a hand in, and which
103: we recommend even though it's not UNIX specific, is
104: <FONT COLOR=Red>The Elements of Programming Style</FONT>.
105: This book contains more common sense than many books triple or quadruple
106: its weight.
107: <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0070342075/openbsdA/">Order from Amazon</A>.
1.2 ian 108:
109: <H2>Books about how the System works, for those wanting to modifying it</H2>
110: <P><A HREF="http://cseng.aw.com/bookdetail.qry?ISBN=0-201-54979-4&ptype=0">The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System</A>
1.1 ian 111: Marshal Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, John S. Quarterman
112: Addison-Wesley: 1996. ISBN 0-201-54979-4.
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1.2 ian 114: <P>At 549 pages plus index. this must be considered comprehensive.
1.1 ian 115: McKusick, Bostic and Karels are well known as prime movers at
116: Berkeley CSRG (Computer Systems Research Group) during the 4.3/4.4BSD
117: period. This book covers the 4.4 and 4.4-Lite releases, and discusses
118: everything you wanted to know about how the system operates. Not
119: 100% applicable, but probably the closest there is to an overall
120: system internals manual for OpenBSD.
1.4 ian 121: <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0201549794/openbsdA/">Order from Amazon</A>
1.1 ian 122:
1.2 ian 123: <P><FONT COLOR=Red>The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD Unix Operating System</FONT>
1.1 ian 124: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick
1.2 ian 125: <P>An earlier book from many of the same good folk at CSRG.
1.1 ian 126: Slightly dated, but gives an overall feel for the beast if you can find
127: it real cheap at a garage sale.
1.2 ian 128:
129: <P><FONT COLOR=Red>The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD Unix Operating System : Answer Book</FONT>
1.1 ian 130: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick
131: 1991
1.2 ian 132: <P>Answers to the "exercises for the reader" in the 4.3 version of the book.
1.1 ian 133:
1.2 ian 134: <P><FONT COLOR=Red>Source Code Secrets: The Basic 386BSD
135: Operating System Reference</FONT>
136: (Volume 1 of Operating System Source Code Secrets)
1.1 ian 137: L. W. Jolitz, William Jolitz
138: 1997
1.2 ian 139: <P>The Jolitzes built the first port of BSD to the PC-386 architecture,
1.1 ian 140: and deserve a lot of credit for making BSD portable to this low-cost
141: architecture. The earliest versions, called "386bsd", were described
142: in articles in <EM>Dr. Dobbs Journal</EM>. This book goes beyond the articles,
143: and provides a comprehensive annotated collection of source code.
144: Not all of it applies to modern versions of OpenBSD, of course, but
145: you can still learn a lot from it.
1.4 ian 146: <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1573980269/openbsdA/">Order from Amazon</A>
1.1 ian 147:
1.2 ian 148: <P><FONT COLOR=Red>Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition with Source Code</FONT>,
1.1 ian 149: Peer-to-Peer ommunications, 1996. ISBN 1-57398-013-7.
1.2 ian 150: Although the UNIX described in this book is to BSD as a Model T Ford
1.1 ian 151: is to a 70's Mustang or Thunderbird, UNIX inventor Ken Thompson
152: claims that "After 20 years, this is still the best exposition
153: of the workings of a 'real' operating system." Originally circulated
154: in illicit photocopies, this is the book that most first- and second-generation
155: UNIX hackers cut their code-teeth on. Recommended as a good introduction
156: to how a timesharing OS works, if you've not been inside one before.
157: Substantially shorter than the McKusick book above.
1.4 ian 158: <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1573980137/openbsdA/">Order from Amazon</A>
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