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Review: Incredible treatment of virtualization. You can probably skip or skim the rest. - I wish I'd read this book years ago. This book covers 3 broad areas: virtualization, concurrency, and persistence. In my opinion the most worthwhile sections are the ones on virtualization. I found the sections on cpu virtualization (processes, interrupts, scheduling, context switches, etc) to be quite the riveting read, and super useful in my day-to-day work life. The sections on memory virtualization were equally useful, but I have to caution potential readers that this is probably the most difficult part of the book. It's written well, and everything is introduced step by step and with good motivation behind it, but... memory is just a lot more complicated than you think. Don't get discouraged if it doesn't click right away. For some reason, every book in the history of mankind has an uncontrollable urge to give the exact same treatment of concurrency as every other book, so the concurrency sections didn't "do it" for me. Finally, the persistence sections... there is some good and some bad here. The good would be the descriptions of a few unix file systems; I now have a very good understanding of what ext2/ext3/ext4/zfs are, how they work, what the tradeoffs are, and so on. I have a very good understanding of what it means to "mount" a device. I have good understanding of how paging works, and how memory can act as a cache for disk - at a low level. However, there is a lot of additional stuff in this chapter that doesn't need to be there IMO. To wit, descriptions of the various levels of hardware RAID (hardware raid is on its way out - software RAID does it all but better, and with only a small amount of overhead), and a collection of chapters on how flash-based storage works. Spoiler: flash-based storage is a nightmare. Just be glad somebody else did the work here, and cross your fingers that you never have to understand this stuff. I would happily pay full price for this book for just the virtualization parts. I am giving it 5 stars 100% because of the virtualization parts. The difference between knowing and not knowing these topics deeply is like night and day. It is difficult to impress upon you, dear reader, just how much of a difference this knowledge makes, in terms of confidence and competence in working in a unix-like environment. Finally, if you've read this far, let me recommend a followup to work through some time after this book: Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective. It has a lot of overlap with this book but is more advanced (for example, OSTEP covers memory virtualization over a hundred pages or so. CS:APP covers it in passing in like 10 pages, but uses this as the beginning of its treatment of memory mapping).
Review: Incredible, fun book - unexpected page-turner - As a self-taught programmer and software engineer, I spent years with a voice inside my head telling me that low-level computing and systems engineering was not for me. This is the first book that I've been able to dive into and truly understand. I was impressed at how concise and clear the explanations are; the author's tone and light humor makes reading this fun. After just a few days with the book, I'm already 1/3rd of the way through. It really says something when a book on operating systems is a page-turner. If you're a programmer or engineer wanting to fill in the missing gaps in your knowledge, I highly recommend this.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #20,840 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1 in Computer Operating Systems Theory #14 in Computer Science (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (666) |
| Dimensions  | 6 x 1.69 x 9 inches |
| ISBN-10  | 198508659X |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1985086593 |
| Item Weight  | 2.2 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 747 pages |
| Publication date  | September 1, 2018 |
| Publisher  | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Incredible treatment of virtualization. You can probably skip or skim the rest.
*by Y***Y on November 20, 2025*

I wish I'd read this book years ago. This book covers 3 broad areas: virtualization, concurrency, and persistence. In my opinion the most worthwhile sections are the ones on virtualization. I found the sections on cpu virtualization (processes, interrupts, scheduling, context switches, etc) to be quite the riveting read, and super useful in my day-to-day work life. The sections on memory virtualization were equally useful, but I have to caution potential readers that this is probably the most difficult part of the book. It's written well, and everything is introduced step by step and with good motivation behind it, but... memory is just a lot more complicated than you think. Don't get discouraged if it doesn't click right away. For some reason, every book in the history of mankind has an uncontrollable urge to give the exact same treatment of concurrency as every other book, so the concurrency sections didn't "do it" for me. Finally, the persistence sections... there is some good and some bad here. The good would be the descriptions of a few unix file systems; I now have a very good understanding of what ext2/ext3/ext4/zfs are, how they work, what the tradeoffs are, and so on. I have a very good understanding of what it means to "mount" a device. I have good understanding of how paging works, and how memory can act as a cache for disk - at a low level. However, there is a lot of additional stuff in this chapter that doesn't need to be there IMO. To wit, descriptions of the various levels of hardware RAID (hardware raid is on its way out - software RAID does it all but better, and with only a small amount of overhead), and a collection of chapters on how flash-based storage works. Spoiler: flash-based storage is a nightmare. Just be glad somebody else did the work here, and cross your fingers that you never have to understand this stuff. I would happily pay full price for this book for just the virtualization parts. I am giving it 5 stars 100% because of the virtualization parts. The difference between knowing and not knowing these topics deeply is like night and day. It is difficult to impress upon you, dear reader, just how much of a difference this knowledge makes, in terms of confidence and competence in working in a unix-like environment. Finally, if you've read this far, let me recommend a followup to work through some time after this book: Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective. It has a lot of overlap with this book but is more advanced (for example, OSTEP covers memory virtualization over a hundred pages or so. CS:APP covers it in passing in like 10 pages, but uses this as the beginning of its treatment of memory mapping).

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Incredible, fun book - unexpected page-turner
*by M***O on February 14, 2023*

As a self-taught programmer and software engineer, I spent years with a voice inside my head telling me that low-level computing and systems engineering was not for me. This is the first book that I've been able to dive into and truly understand. I was impressed at how concise and clear the explanations are; the author's tone and light humor makes reading this fun. After just a few days with the book, I'm already 1/3rd of the way through. It really says something when a book on operating systems is a page-turner. If you're a programmer or engineer wanting to fill in the missing gaps in your knowledge, I highly recommend this.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Quite better then dry dinosaur one
*by X***R on November 16, 2023*

I loved the style this book is written in. This particular book is great just as a context of ideas that are multiconnected within OS and some expertise doing homeworks at the end of each chapter while providing great tons of references for you to go really deep and master what appeared to you interesting. A surprisingly fun read for such a technical book, has jokes, dialogs, authors thoughts on each reference, it even has an easter egg to another Operating System Concepts book!

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