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From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
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On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Donald Burr wrote:
> 
> > I just picked up the latest edition of "UNIX System Administration 
> > Handbook" (an EXCELLENT reference text, btw; I'll be sending highest 
> > kudos to the authors).
> 
> 	YES!  hope that you got the 2nd edition, red cover with cdrom.  
> the first edition is thinner on material and details both.
> 
> > While it doesn't go into details about any of the Free*BSD's nor Linux, 
> > it DOES go into details of a lot of the workstation OS's, including HPUX, 
> > Solaris, ... as well as BSDi on 80x86's.
> 
> 	a great project would be to create a set of FreeBSD specific 
> notations for the book.  just like the authors did for sunos, solaris, 
> hpux, bsdi, irix (sgi), ...

Way back before the birth of the handbook, I thought seriously about 
doing this.  To this day, I think it would be a worthwhile project.  It 
could possibly even be published in paper as a "FreeBSD Companion to UNIX 
System Administration".

-john

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