From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 24 15:51:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C8F437B401 for ; Sat, 24 May 2003 15:51:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A563343FA3 for ; Sat, 24 May 2003 15:51:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net) Received: from 245.st-louis-105-110rs.mo.dial-access.att.net ([12.85.134.245]) by mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13) with SMTP id <2003052422512211300241p0e>; Sat, 24 May 2003 22:51:22 +0000 From: Jonathan To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 17:56:11 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305241756.11030.j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net> Subject: Good FreeBSD book X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 22:51:24 -0000 Hi: I recently got "FreeBSD: An Open-Source operating system for your personal computer", by Annelise Anderson. I must say this is a really excellent introduction to FreeBSD. Although the book covers FreeBSD 4.3, much of the material is still relevant to 4.8. A 4.8 CD was included with the book. She has an entire chapter on ports plus a very nice chapter on kernel configuration and compiling. She covers the commands: kldstat, kldload, dmesg, ldconfig, last, netstat, w, who, ps and top. She covers cvsup too. I learned a lot about my new FreeBSD by reading this book. http://www.bsdmall.com/freebosforyo.html Kind regards, Jonathan