Great book, but not for beginners in Operating Systems

This is a great book and it's very dense. Be warned that although the first chapters quickly verse about some basic Operating Systems concepts, you will need more background to actually understand the underlying problems.

In my case, I learned the basics of Operating Systems and UNIX via the Andrew Tanenbaum books Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition) and Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition), which are very well written and provide a more historical perspective of UNIX systems designs, although there may be better options out there these days.

That said, this book is exactly what I needed: a very advanced guide into Linux internals.

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