Modern Operating Systems incorporate the latest developments and technologies in the field of operating systems (OS). Author Andy Tanenbaum's entertaining writing style outlines the concepts every OS designer needs to master. In-depth topic coverage includes processes, threads, memory management, file systems, I/O, deadlocks, interface design, multimedia, performance trade-offs, and trends in OS design.
Case studies explore popular OS and provide real-world context. This book also provides information on current research based on the author's experience as an operating systems researcher. The 5th Edition keeps pace with modern OS with a new chapter on Windows 11.
Features -
1. In-depth topic coverage includes processes, threads, memory management, file systems, I/O, deadlocks, interface design, multimedia, performance tradeoffs, and the newest trends in operating systems (OS) design.
2. Multimedia file systems are covered in detail, an important topic that most books miss.
3. Thorough treatment of computer security includes viruses, worms, malware and other digital pests. Practical guidance is also provided on ways to combat and defend against security threats.
4. Full-chapter case studies explore current OS in real-world detail. Entertaining writing style outlines the big-picture concepts every OS designer needs to master.
About the Author -
Andrew S. Tanenbaum has an SB. degree from MI.T. and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Com- puter Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He was formerly Dean of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, an interuni- versity graduate school doing research on advanced parallel, distributed, and imag- ing systems. He was also an Academy Professor of the Royal Netherlands Acade- my of Arts and Sciences, which has saved him from turning into a bureaucrat. He also won a European Research Council Advanced Grant.
In the past, he has done research on compilers, reliable operating systems, net- working, and distributed systems. This research has led to over 200 refereed pub- lications in journals and conferences. Prof. Tanenbaum has also authored or co- authored five books, which have been translated into over 20 languages, ranging from Basque to Thai. They are used at universities all over the world. There are 163 versions of his books.
Prof. Tanenbaum has also produced a considerable volume of software, no- tably MINIX, a small UNIX clone. It was the direct inspiration for Linux and the platform on which Linux was initially developed. The current version of MINIX, called MINIX 3, is now focused on being an extremely reliable and secure operat- ing system. Prof. Tanenbaum will consider his work done when no user has any idea what an operating system crash is. MINIX 3 is an ongoing open-source pro- ject to which you are invited to contribute. Go to www.minix3.org to download a free copy of MINIX 3 and give it a try. Both x86 and ARM versions are available. Prof. Tanenbaum's Ph.D. students have gone on to greater glory after graduat- ing. Some have become professors; others have fulfilled leading roles in govern- ment organizations and industry. He is very proud of them. In this respect, he resembles a mother hen.
Prof. Tanenbaum is a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also won numer- cus scientific prizes from ACM, IEEE, and USENIX. If you are unbearably curi- ous about them, see his page on Wikipedia. He also has two honorary doctorates.
Herbert Bos obtained his Master's degree from Twente University and his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. Since then, he has worked extensively on dependable and efficient I/O architectures for operating sys- tems like Linux, but also research systems based on MINIX 3. He is currently a professor at the VUSec Systems Security Research Group in the Department of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His main research field is systems security.
With his group, he discovered and analyzed many vulnerabilities in both hard- ware and software. From buggy memory chips to vulnerable CPUs, and from flaws in operating systems to novel exploitation techniques, the research has led to fixes in most major operating systems, most popular browsers, and all modern Intel processors. He believes that offensive research is valuable because the main reason for today's security problems is that systems have become so complex that we no longer understand them. By investigating how we can make systems behave in unintended ways, we learn more about their (real) nature. Armed with this know- ledge, developers can then improve their designs in the future. Indeed, while sophisticated new attacks tend to feature prominently in the media, Herbert spends most of his time on developing defensive techniques to improve the security.
His (former) students are all awesome and much cleverer than he is. With them, he has won five Pwnie Awards at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. Moreover, five of his students have won the ACM SIGOPS EuroSys Roger Need- ham Award for best European Ph.D. thesis in systems, two of them have won the ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award for best Ph.D. thesis in security, and two more won the William C. Carter Ph.D. Dissertation Award for their work on dependability. Herbert worries about climate change and loves the Beatles.
The publishers would like to thank Ritika Mehra, Dev Bhoomi Uttarakhand University, Uttarakand for enhancing the contents of the Indian adaptation to better suit the requirements of the Indian universities.
Book Contents –
1. Introduction, 2. Processes and Threads, 3. Memory Management, 4. File Systems, 5. Input/Output 6. Deadlocks, 7. Virtualization and the Cloud, 8. Multiple Processor Systems, 9. Security, 10. Case Study 1: Unix, Linux, and Android, 11. Case Study 2: Windows 11, 12. Operating System Design, 13. Reading List and Bibliography
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