From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 5 10: 3: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1B4D37B66C for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:03:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from envy.geekhouse.net (pool0833.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.195.68]) by merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA16633; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:03:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jim@localhost) by envy.geekhouse.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e95H2wt25871; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:02:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:02:57 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Sven Vermeulen Cc: FreeBSD questions mailinlist Subject: Re: diffrence between freebsd books Message-ID: <20001005100256.D3264@envy.geekhouse.net> Reply-To: jim@lust.geekhouse.net References: <001301c02ec4$72ffac40$0a64a8c0@localnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001301c02ec4$72ffac40$0a64a8c0@localnet>; from pe2tcp@zonnet.nl on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:04:43PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 05 Oct 2000 at 14:04:43 +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > I want to buy a book for freebsd, I know there are the FreeBSD > Handbook and the Complete FreeBSD Manual, but what are the differences > between these books? I also need the ISBN numbers so I can order a > book at the local book store. The main difference between the two is that the handbook is, in a nutshell, a printed copy of the docs on the FreeBSD.org web site. It was taken from a snapshot of the doc tree back in April of this year. See http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/ for the online version. - jim -- jim mock work: jim@osd.bsdi.com | jim@FreeBSD.org http://soupnazi.org/ BSDi Open Source Div | http://bsdi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message