After some hints I searched the archives again and found the following (after some digging - I wonder why this missed my screen before).
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2006-04/2146.html Thanks to all who replied. And to Theo for clarifying this in advance. ;-) On 28 Aug 2006 at 17:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Having read all the OpenBSD specific books I could get my hands on > I intend to dig a bit deeper now. > > After checking the list on http://www.openbsd.org/books.html I > intended to buy > > The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System > by McKusick et al. > (ISBN 0-2015-4979-4) from 1996 > > but then found that there is also a newer book called > > The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System > by McKusick et al. > (ISBN 0-2017-0245-2) from 2004 > > As http://www.openbsd.org/books.html states that the "4.4" book > is "Not 100% applicable, but probably the closest there is to an > overall system internals manual for OpenBSD." I tried to find any > OpenBSD specific comparisons ("4.4" versus "FreeBSD") to find out > which one is to be preferred (from an OpenBSD point of view). > > I checked quite a few reviews on pages of book stores which > obviously did not mention OpenBSD. > > I searched the net using additional query parameters like 'openbsd' > or 'inurl:openbsd' to improve results. > > While I actually found two reviews of people who seem to have read > both books these reviews did not answer my question. > > Checking the archives I found that both books were mentioned in a > thread in 2005 (but not compared). > > Is there anyone who has read both books who could share some > wisdom regarding the differences (e. g. file systems, chroot/jails, > but surely not limited to those) between both books which could > seem important to someone who is really interested in OpenBSD but > not that much in FreeBSD? > > And, yes, I know that this question is not that glorious example > of precision. But I think when I had asked it the way I personally > liked it that would have been the day after I had finished reading > *both* books. ;-) > > Thank you very much in advance for your help. > -- > > > "Feel free" C"b,b 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... > Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail > -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal fC<r Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer
