Any good literature about OS architecture

[lsakhvoruk]

Hi everyone! Well my Mandrake system is running nice and smooth, the only thing is that I am still having trouble with some apps not starting or spontaneously shutting down when I try to use them (Gimp closes down when I click on one brush and then click on another one afterward). And since I like I want to know how it works, so I this book, "The Linux Kernel", I believe thats what its called. I started reading it but man, it assumes that you have pretty good understanding of OS architecture and so I want to ask you guys to recommned me a good book on OS architecture that would not be extremely hard to understand. Thanks to all! Leo.

[WickedLittleSlaveBoy]

that might not be the best place to start....knowing the kernel isn't necessarily going to help your misbehaving userland apps. try one of the unleashed books for a decent start on using the basic components and networking functions of whichever GNU/Linux distribution. man can not live on kernel alone.

[lsakhvoruk]

Thanks WLSB! However my purpose is not only to be able to troubleshoot the system, I really do want to learn the kernel! I am one of those people that are passionatly curious. I want to know how the thing works and why it does the things it does! But I do appreciate your advice. I did try looking for Mandrake Unleased at Books-a-Million and Banrse&Nobel but all they have is Red Hat and pretty much nothing else. I'll have to look around to find the Mandrake book. thanks again! Leo.

[WickedLittleSlaveBoy]

I'm not a Red Hat user, either....but, I have a copy of RHL 6 Unleashed and I don't regret I bought it. hmmmm, must have been a year or more ago, but it's still relevant....even acrossed distros in most areas. it's really not a bad series for intro level stuff. it's covers everything lightly, system installation, configuration, networking, programming and administration, but as far as beginner-intermediate level books go, I'd recommend it over any of the dummies or idiot's series, easily. it gives you enough theory and lays out the basic tools and configuration files nicely.

I'll also recommend Unix/Linux in a nutshell by O'Reilly, too. both of those are solid as far as utilities, shell functions and editors...they could have named it TFM and no one would have complained. really, O'Reilly has all the good *nix books, though.