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Re:The Linux Kernel Explained (1999) by drivers99 on Thursday July 31, 2014 @07:04PM (#8117512)
It says it's based on 2.0.33, copyright 1996-1999. I wonder how accurate it still is.
Re:The Linux Kernel Explained (1999) by userbinator on Friday August 01, 2014 @12:10AM (#8118332)
Much of the kernel has changed but a lot of the info on PC hardware is still pretty accurate; e.g. the description of PCI still applies even to PCI-E which is largely backwards-compatible at the software level despite being completely different hardware-wise. (Minor error I noticed in the PCI section: no 8080-based system had ISA, that and the fixed I/O port assignments started with the 8088 in the IBM PC; or more precisely the 286-based PC/AT.)
Re:The Linux Kernel Explained (1999) by jhmarten on Thursday July 31, 2014 @10:01PM (#8118073)
it's only going to be useful to understand how a kernel works, as an overview. But the specifics (ext2?) are horribly dated.