Unix books

Books on Unix that are not manuals.

See also: courses and humor.

• 1977: A Commentary on the Sixth Edition UNIX Operating System
  • by John Lions
• 1985: Advanced UNIX Programming (archive) (2nd edition)
  • by Marc J. Rochkind
• 1986: The Design of the Unix Operating System (30MB PDF) (Archive)
  • by Maurice Bach
  • This was the textbook used in a University course of which Linus Torvalds was a student.
• 1987: UNIX System Readings and Applications Volume I
  • An official, 400-page dense compilation of many writings on Unix from Bell Labs
• 1989: Life with Unix: A Guide for Everyone
  • by Don Libes and Sandy Ressler
  • Donated by the author to TUHS Archive
• 2019: UNIX: A History and a Memoir
  • by Brian Kernighan

Secondary books

• 1992: Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
  • by W. Richard Stevens
  • 2005: 2nd edition
  • Course available that uses this textboook
• 2003: The Art of Unix Programming (PDF)
  • by Eric Steven Raymond
  • Eric is better known for The Cathedral and the Bazaar (catb)
• 2021+: Chapter 2 - UNIX
  • by Jan Schaumann
  • excerpt of unreleased Principles of System Administration