Re: Book Recommendations

From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey (grog_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 06/12/04

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To: MaryAnne Olsen <wolsen@erols.com>

    On Friday, 28 May 2004 at 10:34:38 -0400, MaryAnne Olsen wrote:
    > On Thursday, May 27, 2004 7:48 AM, Pavel Duda wrote:
    >> Huy wrote:
    >>> Anyone have any book recommendations for a concise tutorial of
    >>> installing & getting freebsd up and running from scratch? I am
    >>> just finding the online material slightly terse for me without any
    >>> prior Unix experience.
    >
    > I also used The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey. I bellieve he has a
    > newer book out. mine was from Walnut Creek CDROM Books with 4
    > CDROMS. A real oldie.

    Indeed, the Walnut Creek version is five years old now. O'Reilly has
    published the new edition (see
    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cfreebsd/desc.html), but for some
    reason the news hasn't got out there very well.

    Greg 

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