Some Relevant Links

This page will provide some links to various Web resources that might be relevant to CPSC 457 students. Examples include Linux Web sites, UML manuals, C programming tutorials, debugging tips, and kernel programming guides.

• Author's Web site for Operating System Concepts (8th Edition)
• Summer 2007 offering of CPSC 457 by Craig Schock
• Craig's User Mode Linux (UML) notes
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• Unix History (Bell Labs)
• Unix System History and Timeline
• A Brief History of Unix (Rutgers University)
• Detailed Unix History
• BSD Unix Overview PPT slides (4.9 MB) PDF slides (2.0 MB)
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• C Programming Tutorial (Drexel University)
• Another C Programming Tutorial
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• Unix Shell Programming Tutorial
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• OS Market Share
• Passive OS Fingerprinting
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• An Experimental Investigation of Scheduling Strategies for UNIX (1984)
• Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) in Linux 2.6.23
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• Funny Unix error messages
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• Memory Management applet
• Windows Process Explorer
• Linux Process Memory Details
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• Linux ext2 file system
• Linux ext3 file system
• Technical specs on different file systems.
• Appendix A of textbook on BSD Unix (See A.7 on File System)
• An on-line book about the Linux kernel
• File system chapter of the on-line book
• Some Linux file system data structures
• FSU course on Linux internals with handy identifier search
• Piece-wise description of VFS in Linux
• Future of Linux file systems
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• Ksplice
• Interactive map of Linux kernel