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Which Unix book/s do you think are the best for
1) An Administrator
2) A Developer

I am decently good with unix...

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W​hich "Unix"​? – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Nov 13 '10 at 14:42
May be "Unix-like" or "*nix" – Ringo Nov 13 '10 at 15:35
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Stephens, Rago, "Advanced Programming in the UNIX environment" is pretty good for programmers. I read good things about Rochkind, "Advanced UNIX programming", 2nd ed. as well.

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+1 APUE2 is the best present to every *nix developer. – Benjamin Oct 19 '11 at 4:33
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For system administration it's hard to beat UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook.

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For Linux: read Redhat's books about Systemtap/kprobes/any tracing utils, if you need work at kernel level. Also, take something to read about kernel schedulers, CFQ/BFQ.

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Yes I am more interested in kernel level programming... – Ringo Nov 14 '10 at 17:08
Heh.. there is a Documentation/ in kernel, systemtap for debugging and vmware's remote GDB feature to attach to working kernel (useful for tracking lots of PCI calls without having to modify code..). – kagali-san Nov 18 '10 at 4:12
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