Some more books that might be of interest to people curious about Unix/Linux internals and OS concepts in general that I forgot to put on the list yesterday: Unix/Linux Internals: "IA-64 Linux Kernel: Design and Implementation" by Mosberger & Eranian "HP-UX 11i Internals" by Cooper and Moore "Understanding Linux Network Internals" by Bevenuti OS Concepts: "Operating System Concepts" by Silberschatz Tanenbaum's trio of books: "Modern Operating Systems", "Operating Systems Design and Implementation", and "Distributed Operating Systems" This list of books and the others in the earlier email cover the range of introductory to advanced.