Customer Reviews

Great Kernel reference. - By: Valerio Valerio, 15 Apr 2007
Nowadays its less common for a user to have to compile a kernel, but there are times that if you don't do it a given device will no work properly (or at all). Despite the huge amount of Linux distributions available none is able to fulfill every user requirement. Configuring a laptop or installing a server requires different sets of modules with imply reconfiguring & recompiling the kernel. If you want to listen to a music, enable power management on a laptop or install some enterprise grade features like RAID or LVM this book is surely to help you.

The "Linux Kernelin a Nutshell" was written by one of the most renoun Linux kernel hackers, Greg Kroab-Hartman. Greg Kroab-Hartman develops system drivers since 1999 & is currently responsible for several of the kernel's subsystems, udev & hotplug.

This book was written to explain everything with is necessary to compile & install a Linux kernel. You don't need any prior programming experience but is most recommend some knowledge of the Linux system & it's command line.

The "Linux Kernelin a Nutshell" is quite complete & clear making it easy for the reader to compile its first kernelin just a few hours after having the book. Kroab-Hartman manages to do this supplying plenty of informationin a well structured form that makes its reading extraordinarily easy.

The first chapters explain how to obtain & compile the kernel with is very light reading (about one hour). In the next chapters he explains how to customize your kernel. Finally at the end there is a list of boot & compilation parameters.

If you have some experience with Linux or you usually compile your kernel the information availablein this book is a bit too simple never the less useful. If you never compiled a Kernel this book will save you plenty of time.

I recommend "Linux Kernelin a Nutshell" to every Linux user with wishes to learn a bit more how it's Linux system works.

Review made by Luis Rodrigues "Khromu".