• OSC: Operating Systems Concepts, (8th Edition), Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne, John Wiley, 2008.
  ISBN 0-470-12872-0.

Strongly Recommended Texts

• LKD: Linux Kernel Development (2nd edition), by Robert Love. Novell Press, 2005.
  ISBN 978-0672327209.
• CPR: C Pocket Reference, by Peter Prinz. O'Reilly, 2002.
  ISBN 978-0672327209.

Recommended

• ULK: Understanding the Linux Kernel (3rd Edition), Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati, O'Reilly, November 2005.
  ISBN 0-596-00565-2.
• LKN: Linux Kernel in a Nutshell, by Greg Kroah-Hartman. O'Reilly, 2006.
  ISBN 978-0596100797.
• LSP: Linux System Programming: Talking Directly to the Kernel and C Library, by Robert Love. O'Reilly, 2007.
  ISBN 0-596-00958-5.

Weakly Recommended

• APUE: Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, R. Stevens, Addison-Wesley, 1993.
  ISBN 0-201-56317-7.
• MOS: Modern Operating Systems (2nd Edition), A. S. Tannenbaum, Prentice Hall, 2001.
  ISBN 0-13-031358-0.