08-09-2009
The subforum with the book recommendations is writable for the staff only. If someone has a good recommendation to make it will be transferred there upon review. In other words: you have were absolutely correct in placing your question here.
If you want to learn the general principles about kernel workings i suggest you do not read a book about Unix but about operating systems principles. I took the most out of Prof. Andrew Tanenbaums "Modern Operating Systems" (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007, ISBN 0136006639, 9780136006633), which covers all these principles. It explains the basic problems (processes competing for resources, management of filespace, etc.) every OS is a (different) solution to.
If you want to see these principles in action i suggest reading "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation" (Prentice-Hall, 1987, ISBN 136374069, 9780136374060). it was the book which started Linux when Linus Torvalds took the commented source code for an OS it includes and used this to start developing his own OS. Originally the book was written as a script to Prof. Tanenbaums lecture about OS design. The first volume is laying out the principles of kernel architecture (things like "how does a scheduler work"), the second volume is a commented source code for a Unix-like kernel called "Minix", which puts the knowledge of vol.1 into practice.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
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FBREADER(1) General Commands Manual FBREADER(1)
NAME
FBReader - e-book reader
SYNOPSIS
FBReader [-zlui ui-type] [ui-specific options] [-lang language] [e-book]
DESCRIPTION
FBReader is an e-book reader. It supports most open e-book formats, and can read compressed e-book archives.
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OPTIONS
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Try to start FBReader with the specified uu type. Supported ui types are gtk (to use Gtk+ library), qt (Qt 3 library) and qt4 (Qt 4
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ui-specific options
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Language for user interface. Current version (0.12.0) of fbreader supports Arabic (specify -lang ar option), Chinese (-lang zh),
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e-book Name of file to open. If this parameter is missing or if FBReader cannot open the specified file, the last opened file will be
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