书名：构建嵌入式LINUX系统（第二版）

作者：Karim Yaghmour, Jon Masters, Gilad Ben-Yossef, Philippe Gerum 著

译者：O'Reilly Taiwan公司 译

国内出版社：中国电力出版社

出版时间：2010年12月

页数：414

书号：978-7-5123-0311-9

原版书出版商：O'Reilly Media

 

Karim Yaghmour是Opersys公司（http://www.opersys.com）的创始人及总裁。Opersys公司的服务项目是为开源和自由软件在嵌入式系统中的使用提供专家支持和培训。作为开源和自由软件社区中活跃的成员，Karim将Opersys所提供的服务稳定地建立在社区所推动的知识共享和技术品质的核心价值上。Karim对社区的部分贡献包括：他是Linux Trace Toolkit的维护者，还是使Adeos nanokernel（允许多个操作系统并存）得以完成的白皮书（white paper）系列的作者。
Karim从小酷爱研究事物的运行原理。小时候，Karim甚至拆开家中所有的收音机和盒式录音机，以便能够“修理”它们。同样，Karim很早就展现出对操作系统内部及嵌入式系统的浓厚兴趣。他目前已经取得了蒙特拿综合理工学院的工程学士和科学硕士学位。当大家热衷于Linux的时候，Karim另辟蹊径，撰写自己的分散式微核心，藉此深入了解操作系统的设计和实现。业余时间，Karim爱好史学、哲学、社会学和人文科学。此外，他还对Umberto Eco和Gerald Messadie的散文和小说情有独钟。

Karim Yaghmour is the founder and president of Opersys, a company providing expertise
and courses on the use of open source and free software in embedded systems,
and Kryptiva, a provider of email security services. As an active member of the open
source and free software community, Karim has firmly established Opersys’s services
around the core values of knowledge sharing and technical quality promoted by this
community. As part of his community involvement, Karim is the maintainer of the
Linux Trace Toolkit and the author of a series of white papers that led to the implementation
of the Adeos nanokernel, which allows multiple operating systems to exist
side by side. Karim’s quest for understanding how things work started at a very young
age when he took it upon himself to break open all the radios and cassette players he
could lay his hands on in order to “fix” them. Very early, he developed a keen interest
in operating system internals and embedded systems. He now holds a B.Eng. and an
M.A.Sc. from the ?cole Polytechnique de Montréal. While everyone was hacking away
at Linux, Karim even took a detour to write his own distributed microkernel in order
to get to the bottom of operating system design and implementation.
When not working on software, Karim indulges in his passion for history, philosophy,
sociology, and humanities in general. He’s especially addicted to essays and novels by
Umberto Eco and Gerald Messadi.

 

 

 

Jonathan Masters is a British Linux kernel engineer working for Red Hat, where he
works on the real-time kernel team, and on a variety of other projects. Jon made U.K.
history by beginning his first college degree at the tender age of 13. He has been using
and has been involved with Linux for most of his life. He has worked on a diverse variety
of embedded Linux projects in different capacities—as an independent contractor, an
employee of a large scientific research company, and at a well-known embedded Linux
vendor. Jon has written several books, many technical articles, and maintains the
module-init-tools package used by the Linux kernel.
Jon lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and enjoys travel, hacking embedded devices,
hiking, U.S. history, obscure legal texts, and any opportunity for random craziness.

 

 

 

Gilad Ben-Yossef is the cofounder and CTO of Codefidence Ltd. and has been assisting
OEMs make use of free and open source software in commercial products and
services since 1998. He is also cofounder of Hamakor, an NPO devoted to the promotion
of FOSS in Israel, and a founding organizer of “August Penguin,” an Israeli community
FOSS conference.
Gilad is a member of the Israeli chapter of Mensa, the Israeli Information Technology
Association, and the Israeli chapter of the Internet Society. He holds a B.A. in computer
science from Tel-Aviv Jaffa Academic College.
When not trying to make FOSS software do something the authors never intended,
Gilad likes to scuba dive, read science fiction, and spend time with his wife, Limor, and
his two adorable girls, Almog and Yael.

 

 

 

Philippe Gerum is the founder and lead maintainer of the Adeos and Xenomai projects.

 

 

本书的封面所绘制的是一座风车房（windmill），取材自《多佛绘图集》（Dover Pictorial Archive）系列中的 19 世纪版画。