The best operating systems textbooks, according to hackers
4 operating systems textbooks recommended in Hacker News comments over the past year, ranked by how many separate people recommend each one.
All operating systems textbooks
- Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces by Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea Arpaci-DusseauFree online, well-written introduction to operating systems that readers praise as clear, practical and genuinely educational; paid print copies are available.11recommend
- Operating Systems: Design and Implementation by Andrew TanenbaumPeople recommend it for a real understanding of kernel internals and core OS concepts. Main caveat: it prints only a subset of the code.7recommend
- Windows Internals by Russinovich, Solomon and IonescuPeople recommend it as a deep guide to how Windows works inside, with general lessons in OS design. No caveat was raised.6recommend
- Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles by William StallingsRecommended by a couple of commenters as a very good operating systems textbook, though one found it covers too many things out of context.2recommend