Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 08:53:02 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Gustaf Tham <gus@algonet.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Someone please review "FreeBSD Unleashed" Message-ID: <XFMail.20011108085302.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <20011107152226.A9E2.GUS@algonet.se>
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On 07-Nov-2001 Gustaf Tham wrote: > Good to see several new books available about FreeBSD, > but hard to choose when you can't look through them. > > Annelise Anderson's introductory book looks nice; reviewed at > http://www.daemonnews.org/200109/fbsd_bookreview.html > > I'll get that one for sure. But then it gets more difficult -- should I pick > "The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide" by Ted Mittelstaedt, > one chapter of which can be read at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/corp-net-guide/index.html > > or "FreeBSD Unleashed" by Urban & Tiemann, of which I only > know the contents? > It depend on what your goal is. Annelise Anderson's book is a pure introductory book. I imagine it is VERY useful for the home user as it covers many of the questions that I ran into when I first started off with FreeBSD - and I learned some new tricks from it too. But it does not go as far as to advanced administration of a network and such. I would recommed this book as an introductory book on the subject and probably contains everything you need to know if you want to replace your windows box at home or at work with FreeBSD (which is a good idea BTW:) Ted Mittelstadt's book concentrates on how to make FreeBSD enter the corporate scene. Not as a personal workstation but as server for many typical corporate tasks - web, mail, dhcp... He discusses mnay aspects of FreeBSD in that area and no matter whether your machine park is pure DOS, win3.11, win95 or winNT you are bound to find what you need to know here. The book really fills up a niche since not many organisations are ready to 'kill -9 windows' but want to enjoy the stablity and performance of the FreeBSD/Samba combo. (not to mention the price tag) Michael Urban & Brian Tiemann's book finally (I only got it last night so this is more of a first impression) seems to be oriented much more towards the administration of FreeBSD in a corporate environment. It covers shell and perl programming, kernel recompilation, configuring networks/routers with email and web and ftp, NFS and BIND... A whole bunch of goodies for the serious user. It is much more like The Complete FreeBSD content-wise. So, if I reiterate, it depends on who you are and what you want to use FreeBSD for. And don't forget Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD either. /M > _______________________________________________________________________ > G u s t a f T h a m Lidköping, Sweden ^^^^^^^^ ^ Wow! Me too! ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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