Comment by saidnooneever
5 hours ago
theres some questionable quality content in the book, but lets be fair 4.5k pages is hard to manage.
if people dont get too 'anti' about it, it might grown into a good book at some point over editions.
It would certainly be useful to have such a book be complete and maintained (tons of work ofc).
personally id prefer a book that requires abit more prework, like learning C etc. and Unix, so it can be more compact specific to device drivers. 4k+ pages is a lot to chew through and more a thing for reference manuals like intel/amd/acpi manuals etc. (lot of tables and diagrams etc.)
Edson Brandi is a very clever guy, and I'm surprised he managed to pull this off considering his other professional engagements.
> theres some questionable quality content in the book, but lets be fair 4.5k pages is hard to manage.
Could you be more specific? Maybe open an issue listing points for possible improvement?
Books are great. Even if they are not perfect.
I used to point at LFS/BLFS in the past (Linux from scratch), since the idea is great. Unfortunately they are now systemd-only, which kind of defeats some of the points, IMO. But documentation is useful, so FreeBSD improving here is good. Perhaps one day it can compete against Linux again. :D