On the 31st of July I ordered my copies of two excellent books:

• Solaris™ Internals: Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Kernel Architecture, 2nd edition
• Solaris™ Performance and Tools: DTrace and MDB Techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris

I had been impatiently waiting for the books to arrive, had been frightened by a colleague from Logistics with difficulties I would have with customs and so on. Expected delivery time was August 9th 6:00PM so I was very surprised when I got a call from the reception on Monday, 7th of August that my books had been delivered and were waiting for me at the reception. No issues with customs, no delays and books are finally at my desk!

I had a chance to read parts of the first one in the draft form and I was very impressed. First edition of Solaris Internals was amazing and the second edition is going to be even more successful. It is a "must have" for anyone interested in Operating Systems in general and internal architecture of Solaris and OpenSolaris in particular.

Second one was a surprise for me and now I'm going through it.

I'm going to talk about these books during the coming MOSUG meeting.

Thanks Jim, Brendan and Richard for the enormous effort and a real masterpiece!