Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Linux Kernel Book in a Nutshel



this book have very complete contents, by reading this book we will know how to build, configure, and install a custom Linux kernel on your machine,It is written Greg Kroah-Hartman, published by O'Reilly someone who spends every day building, configuring, and installing custom kernels as part of the development process of this fun, collaborative project called Linux.

then why this book is free for us ? the author want this book to help bring more people into the Linux kernel development fold. The act of building a customized kernel for your machine is one of the basic tasks needed to become a Linux kernel developer. Wonderful reason !!

How about license
This book is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license. That means that you are free to download and redistribute it. The development of the book was made possible, however, by those who purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere.

Download PDF type file (tarball compress)

and this by title

Title page
Copyright and credits
Preface
Part I: Building the Kernel
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Requirements for Building and Using the Kernel
Chapter 3: Retrieving the Kernel Source
Chapter 4: Configuring and Building
Chapter 5: Installing and Booting from a Kernel
Chapter 6: Upgrading a Kernel
Part II: Major Customizations
Chapter 7: Customizing a Kernel
Chapter 8: Kernel Configuration Recipes
Part III: Kernel Reference
Chapter 9: Kernel Boot Command-Line Parameter Reference
Chapter 10: Kernel Build Command-Line Reference
Chapter 11: Kernel Configuration Option Reference
Part IV: Additional Information
Appendix A: Helpful Utilities
Appendix B: Bibliography
Index




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