Operating System Concepts 10th Edition

Jan 10, 2018  Operating Systems Concepts, 10th Edition Posted by pbgalvin under Operating Systems Leave a Comment Lots of hard work went into this edition, so very pleased to see it coming out.

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The tenth edition of Operating System Concepts has been revised to keep it fresh and up-to-date with contemporary examples of how operating systems function, as well as enhanced interactive elements to improve learning and the student’s experience with the material. It combines instruction on concepts with real-world applications so that students can understand the pract...more

Published May 4th 2018 by Wiley (first published January 1st 1985)

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Oct 11, 2011Rod Hilton rated it liked it · review of another edition

It's a textbook on Operating Systems. There's not really all that much to say about it beyond that, so instead I will compare it to two other OS textbooks that I've read, 'Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective' by Gary Nutt and 'Modern Operating Systems' by Tanenbaum, generally regarded as the seminal textbook on the subject.
OS Concepts is, to put it bluntly, very dry. This is somewhat expected with a book on Operating Systems, but the level of dryness is worth noting. I often found the book d...more

Jul 07, 2010Nick Black rated it it was ok · review of another edition

You learn operating systems by reading operating system source code, not the dinosaur book.

Oct 29, 2013Ohud rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Very helpful and if you are IT person, you will have read it decades ago.
I mean schools usually give a course where this book is the reference, if not the only material.

Feb 04, 2015Maxim Perepelitsyn rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Serves as a great complement to more applied books like Linux Kernel Development or Linux Device Drivers, filling all remaining theoretical gaps and providing the history of OS evolution.
Fits well for self-study. Almost every exercise, which there is a lot of, has a reference solution available either on the book's website or in the instructor's manual for the 7th edition, which can be easily found on the internet. Plus programming problems to gain a better understanding of essential OS topics....more

Nov 28, 2017Nikoleta rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Jul 16, 2009Bar Shirtcliff rated it liked it · review of another edition

Good for beginners: it's so easy to read that I can read it when I'm too sleepy for the Decline & Fall.
I'd like to find an equally approachable computer architecture book.

Apr 27, 2019Ahmad Anvari rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Jan 31, 2016knoba rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Preface
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Computer-System Structures
3. Operating-System Structures
4. Processes
5. CPU Scheduling
6. Process Synchronization
7. Deadlocks
8. Memory Management
9. Virtual Memory
10. File-System Interface
11. File-System Implementation
12. I/O Systems
13. Secondary-Storage Structure
14. Tertiary-Storage Structure
15. Network Structures
16. Distributed System Structures
17. Distributed File Systems
18. Distributed Coordination
19. Protection
20. Security
21. The Unix System
22. The Linux Sys...more

Jan 18, 2019Ilke Tahaoglu rated it did not like it · review of another edition

I read most of this book word by word and I am still pissed at what a waste of time that was.
If you want to learn, read tanenbaum.
If its for a class, I wish you luck, since with a professor who has chosen such a book you will probably need it.

Sep 25, 2016Yasin rated it really liked it · review of another edition

it's a good book! but you need to keep eye on other books to don't miss any point!

Apr 10, 2012DPeashooter rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Monotone and obtuse.
Has an affinity for fancy words - which normally ignites my interest, but not in this case somehow.

Apr 10, 2018Patrick Coakley rated it liked it · review of another edition

Like most people, this was the text used for my operating systems course. I found it to be incredibly hard to follow at times and quite boring. Some people might argue that it's hard to make content like this interesting, but I found other authors, such as Andrew Tanenbaum, cover the material much faster and in a more understandable way. My main issue is that it assumes knowledge on some things but will explain others in an inconsistent manner. I generally had to search for a quite a few things...more

Nov 14, 2018Arvind Prakash rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Disclaimer: I am fairly new to the Operating systems and linux world.
This is my first book on operating system theory and i found it to be pretty descriptive about the concepts instead of just brushing up on things.I would recommend this book to someone who has been recently been exposed to the linux kernel and feels the need to understand the big picture or some of the basic clockworks that drive an Operating system and this is my no means the Bible of operating systems but a good starting poi...more

May 07, 2018Sam Bateman rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

A fantastic overview of operating systems and the components that make them up. Generally not detailed enough for implementations, but there are other good books for that. This book is nearly completely self contained, although I would recommend doing all the example problems at the end of each chapter and then at least one of the programming assignments. They will really help hammer home your understanding of the concepts.

Nov 08, 2018Claudiu rated it liked it · review of another edition

One of the recommended textbooks on operating systems. If not reading this for your course, it's not really a book you want to read cover to cover but something you refer to when you want to understand the fundamentals on a topic.
While it's better structured than Tanenbaum's 'Modern Operating Systems', it's also certainly less entertaining.

Jan 28, 2019Sam Pollard rated it really liked it · review of another edition

It's hard to make a book on operating systems interesting but the dino book does a pretty good job. Another challenge is making things general to all operating systems without making vacuous statements which Silberschatz does well.

Feb 07, 2019Ahmed Qasim rated it really liked it · review of another edition

it is complex but necessary for every programmer and all information technology person. i loved it .

Nov 23, 2018Kevin Winata rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Sep 25, 2018Arturo rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

It is a very clear and easy to read to learn the basics and even more advanced concepts that involve operating systems.

Jan 03, 2018Quant Daddy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

pretty basic OS book, recommended as the first book.

Nov 04, 2018Anish Ansari rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Easy to understand and very deep explanation about concepts

Mar 05, 2019Sadia Dina rated it really liked it · review of another edition

May 03, 2019Jasmine Dirksen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Clear & straight-forward, as a textbook ought to be

Jun 15, 2019Aya Khaled rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Very good and powerful book for understanding concepts of operating system and how this operate ..

Feb 27, 2017Gaelan D'costa rated it liked it · review of another edition

I remember this being one of my most-loved books in university ... operating systems was one of my favourite courses and this textbook kept me incredibly fascinating. It was also, at least for me, overwhelmingly dense since in university I was being piled under new concepts that didn't sink in due to lack of practical application and general vocational immaturity.
Reading it again ... it's a good book. It's possibly a good reference, given that my particular copy is ancient. But I have to wonder...more

Apr 29, 2012Joe rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I read the fourth edition, from 95. I think writing an OS textbook must be a difficult case of trying to achieve balance: balancing the right topics, from a sea of concepts related to operating systems and computer operation; balancing enough detail to be interesting and useful with simplicity and accessibility needed in an introductory textbook.
OS Concepts does a pretty good job of finding balance. The topics covered are pretty good: pretty much everything I think is centrally important to OS d...more

Nov 18, 2016Gregory Blake rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Operating Systems Concepts is a great undergraduate-level resource for its subject, focusing, as its name advertises, on the concepts behind building an operating system. Outside of the exercises, the text spends relatively little time on code examples or gritty details, relegating that to suggested reading or simply saying 'Go look at an open-source operating system!'.
This emphasis on concepts makes a great deal of sense given the variance in how to accomplish goals and the sheer amount of gro...more

Oct 24, 2016Houssem MENHOUR rated it really liked it · review of another edition

It was the suggested textbook for my class on operating systems, I relied mostly on the accompanying slides rather than the gigantic book itself. That was fine in my use case but could be different for you, if so, be ready for a dry and unpleasant reading experience.
Other reviewers pointed out that there are better alternatives, namely Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Until I check that, I'll give this one 4 stars.

Dec 13, 2017Andrew Obrigewitsch rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is a very in depth book on the subject of operating system architecture. I read most of it as part of a class I took on the same subject.
The book is very in-depth and enlightening. But by no means is this an easy read. As another review said this book is extremely dry.
However I did learn quite a bit about how computers work, and how different algorithms are deployed in operating systems. Unfortunately, as is the nature for school, I will probably never use most of this despite being requi...more

Jan 20, 2014Evan Snyder rated it liked it · review of another edition

This was the required book for my first Operating Systems Concepts class. As it was my first work in the subject, I have not read any similar books to compare and have no pre-existing knowledge to cross-check. With that novice disclaimer, I found this book to be very straightforward and readable with a number of relevant and up-to-date examples. Overall, a good outline of the requirements, components, and algorithms of a generic operating system.

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Abraham Silberschatz is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor & Chair of Computer Science at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he was the Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories. Prior to that, he held a chaired professorship in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
Professor Silberschatz is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE F...more

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