Re: Good FreeBSD book

From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey (grog_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 05/25/03

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To: "Jerry M. Howell II" <jmhowell@jmhowell.com>

    On Sunday, 25 May 2003 at 0:22:49 -0600, Jerry M. Howell II wrote:
    > On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 05:56:11PM -0500, Jonathan wrote:
    >> Hi:
    >>
    >> I recently got "FreeBSD: An Open-Source operating system for your personal
    >> computer", by Annelise Anderson. I must say this is a really excellent
    >> introduction to FreeBSD. Although the book covers FreeBSD 4.3, much of the
    >> material is still relevant to 4.8. A 4.8 CD was included with the book. She
    >> has an entire chapter on ports plus a very nice chapter on kernel
    >> configuration and compiling. She covers the commands: kldstat, kldload,
    >> dmesg, ldconfig, last, netstat, w, who, ps and top. She covers cvsup too. I
    >> learned a lot about my new FreeBSD by reading this book.
    >>
    >> http://www.bsdmall.com/freebosforyo.html
    >
    > I personaly liked FreeBSD Unleashed even though I'm not a big SAMS
    > advocate.

    Agreed. SAMS have a bad reputation, but this book is surprisingly
    good.

    > Most of my books are from O'Reilly but they did a realy good job on
    > this book. two thumbs up. Anyone else have any recomendations,
    > besides the obvoius handbook and other websites posted on the
    > freebsd site?

    Well, since you mention O'Reilly, and at the risk of blowing my own
    trumpet, take a look at "The Complete FreeBSD", fourth edition, which
    is hot off the press.
    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cfreebsd/desc.html.

    Greg 

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