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Kernel Projects for Linux (with CD-ROM)
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Author: Gary Nutt
List Price: $44.00
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ISBN: 0201612437
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (15 January, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 99,582
Average Customer Rating: 2.11 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
VERY , VERY OUTDATED.....
This book is based on a previous , very old kernel of Linux... Need I say more ? Well, I will anyways ... the really exciting part of writing code for Linux is when you start writing modules and device drivers .And here is where it starts getting ridiculous and the book goes downhill because the newer versions of the kernel have a TOTALLY different procedure from writing modules and device drivers..... The examples might work with the version of Linux included with the book but that too is a very old version. This can be a very good book if it is updated to programming the 2.4.x kernel. I would suggest looking at kernelnewbies.org and some mailing lists for ideas on new projects. Also "Writing Linux Device Drivers" which is available free of cost in pdf format is a good book.
Rating: 1 out of 5
I HATE THIS BOOK
I spend a lot of time to read the book
but it let me so frustration and feel like a oaf!for example the chap five, p 111 this kind of book should use ready-to-run short examples to
tell the reader what the hell inside the computer memoey
and how the cpu begins their life whenever power-on!
Rating: 3 out of 5
I liked it, but...
This was actually quite an interesting book. I found the assignments interesting, and challenging yet able to be completed for the most part.Now we come to the problem. When you are asked to answer a question in an assignment, and you contact the author of the book and the "creators" of Linux who both agree the question can not be answered as asked, we get into a bit of weirdness. Even the author says the "official" solution to some of the problems in the book are done in exactly the way he requests them not to be done in the book, simply because it is impossible to solve the problem in Linux as asked. So, if you're looking for something that makes you think about ways to accomplish assigned tasks, this is a good book. If you want a book without errors and having all questions capable of being answered as asked, this is not as good of a book.
Therefore I give it 3 stars, to put it right in the middle.
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