Books

Mandatory Textbook

• Operating Systems Concepts, by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne , Seventh Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Supplemetary Textbook

• Modern Operating Systems, by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 2001.

Recommended Books To Read

• Operating Systems Concepts, Windows XP Update, by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne, 6th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2003.  
• Operating Systems,  3/E, by Gary Nutt, Addison Wesley, 2004. 
• Understanding the Linux Kernel, Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati, O'Reilly & Associates, 2nd edition, December 2002.
• The Linux Kernel, by David Rusling. (A locally stored copy is here).

Other Reference Books

• Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, by Andrew S. Tannenbaum, Albert W. Woodhull, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 1997.

• Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, by William Stallings, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2000

• The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, by Marshall Kirk McKusick et al,  Addison-Wesley Pub Co;  Second Edition, April 30, 1996.

• IA-64 Linux Kernel: Design and Implementation, by David Mosberger, Stephane Eranian, Bruce Perens, Prentice Hall PTR;  1st edition, January 30, 2002

• Linux Kernel Internals,  Michael Beck, Harald Bohme, Mirko Dziadzka, Ulrich Kunitz, Robert Magnus, Dirk Verworner, Harold Bohme, Addison-Wesley Pub Co; ; 2nd Book and CD-ROM edition, December 16, 1997.

Recommended Programming References

• The C Programming Language,  by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie,  Prentice Hall PTR, 1998 (must have book for serious C programmers).

• Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, W. Richard Stevens, Addison-Wesley, 1992.

• Unix Network Programming, Volume 1,  W. Richard Stevens,  Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI, Second Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, 1998.
• Unix Network Programming, Volume 2,  W. Richard Stevens,  Interprocess Communications, Second Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, 1998.
• The Unix Programming Environment, by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, Prentice Hall Computr Books, 1984 (for the first beginners to Unix)
• The Practice of Programming, by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike,  Addison Wesley, 1999.