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The "FreeBSD Architecture Handbook" book provides a comprehensive technical reference for the internal architecture and subsystems of the FreeBSD operating system. It details kernel internals including bootstrapping processes, locking mechanisms, and system initialization frameworks like SYSINIT. The handbook extensively covers security architectur

The mission of the first edition of this book was to introduce the anykernel and rump kernels and motivate their existence. Additionally, we explored the characteristics of the technology through various experiments. The paramount, often criminally overlooked experiment was the one hiding in plain sight: is it possible to construct the system in a

Of all the free scripting languages, why should you learn Rexx? Rexx is unique in that it combines power with ease of use. Long the dominant scripting language on mainframes, it is definitely a "power" language, yet it is also so easy to use that its popularity has expanded to every conceivable platform. Today Rexx developers use the language on Wi