An important system administration task, and a principle of running a defensible network, is keeping operating systems and applications up-to-date. Running current software is critical when older s...
This book attempts to explain and demystify the principles of compiler writing
so that you can go out and build a working compiler of your own. There is
enough detail in this book for you to buil...
Angelos D. Keromytis
Jason L. Wright
Theo de Raadt
Columbia University
OpenBSD Project
OpenBSD Project
angelos@cs.columbia.edu
jason@openbsd.org
deraadt@openbsd.org
the design of these sys...
There is a wide choice of potential operating systems that work on a wide range of PowerPC platforms. If you want a Unix-like alternative to AIX, particularly a free software one, then Linux seem...
Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that provides you with the steps necessary to build your own custom Linux system. There are a lot of reasons why somebody would want to install an LFS system. ...
This book describes the NetBSD Operating System internals. The main idea behind it is to provide solid documentation for contributors that wish to develop extensions for NetBSD or want to improve i...
This guide describes the installation and the configuration of the NetBSD operating system as well as the setup and administration of some of its subsystems. It primarily addresses people coming fr...
This article describes my efforts at FreeBSD From Scratch: a fully automated installation of a customized FreeBSD system compiled from source, including compilation of all your favorite ports and c...
Tim Love
Cambridge University Engineering Department
tpl@eng.cam.ac.uk
This document aims to:-
* Introduce C by providing and explaining examples of common programming tasks.
* E...
The Linux kernel
Andries Brouwer, aeb@cwi.nl
2003-02-01
Some remarks on the Linux Kernel
Is Linux a Unix system? That depends on your definition of Unix. For the user there is no doubt: Linux is ...
An introduction to system administration of a Linux system for novices.
Version 0.9
Lars Wirzenius
Joanna Oja
Stephen Stafford
Alex Weeks
The Linux System Administrator's Guide, describes the sys...
FreeBSD is a highly sophisticated operating system designed for the x86 compatible, DEC Alpha, and PC-98 architectures. It is optimized for Internet and intranet servers, with strong networking and...