Book recommendation (again)

From: Ted Goranson (tedg_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 01/17/05

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    Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:25:44 -0500
To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org

    I am a complete newbie, with only the most superficial (ie Fedora) experience.

    I have 5.3 and am stuck. I'd like to find a book that helps me with
    just a few things, but: for someone not a systems administrator who
    wants to set up a workstation.

    As an example of the level needed, where I'm stuck is I don't know
    how to configure X from the incredibly primitive default setup.

    I wish to install and configure Fluxbox and Fluxspace, set up Emacs
    with all sorts of goodies (got sufficient docs on that excepting
    using ports), and vnc (or similar) from OSX.

    The online handbook wasn't helpful for my first problem. Complete
    FreeBSD, Absolute BSD, and Design and Implementation seem targeted
    toward admins and server setups. Am I wrong?

    Best, Ted 

    -- 
Ted Goranson
Advanced Enterprise Research Office
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