From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 26 02:59:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F240C1065678 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:59:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: from smtp115.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp115.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A652A8FC18 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:59:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 27517 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2008 02:59:53 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=D71C0/OBOfKKCDaQbWjUCHJJ7Hig9lTyL7tIRA8EGFYZAYv9r+imCuUvWdmbVEp6IA7gvIysmG1sUEihG+rMKy7laG5rb33aJw9YAdG1CsRi++MtTbxgzXJdhtwXDsgbFPb6h+7lN+qCBaakF1Sf/oTPw3EgYE6UspWbsqzEU7g= ; Received: from unknown (HELO napoleon.local) (mike.jeays@rogers.com@99.224.75.182 with login) by smtp115.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Apr 2008 02:59:53 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: HAOgL0AVM1mSdQL.byyNnYTsje5RYzDisJfkTYzwv5WEdXrIdyjsy4P7Sk9b6_90hw-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Mike Jeays To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:59:51 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <919383240804251932i6043dd0auff9423c98019a7ef@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <919383240804251932i6043dd0auff9423c98019a7ef@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804252259.51623.mike.jeays@rogers.com> Subject: Re: Even more documentation? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:59:55 -0000 On April 25, 2008 10:32:37 pm Edward Ruggeri wrote: > Hi all, > > I've used FreeBSD for about two years now. Besides using Linux for > projects on school computers, I never had much experience with > Unix-like operating systems. While I get by nicely on FreeBSD, I > recently felt that I didn't have a very solid understanding of it's > organization or structure. I suppose one can't know everything about > an operating system with as much functionality as FreeBSD, but I > started to feel like my knowledge was really ad-hoc, and that I didn't > completely understand what I was doing (as if I had learned only by > example). > > To that end, I started reading the FreeBSD handbook front-to-back. > I've gotten to Part III, and while it's been very valuable, I still > feel like I'm learning by example, and not by understanding the > operating system. I'm starting to think I'm expecting something out > of the handbook it's not designed to do. > > It seems like the man pages would be a good place to go, but my > trouble with using them is that they're difficult to put together the > information on different pages. I suppose I want something like a > textbook. I dream of a K&R type text that is very comprehensive and > well-organized. > > If anyone has advice, I'd very much appreciate it! > > Sincerely, > > -- Ned Ruggeri > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" For more details on the internal design, find a copy of "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System " http://www.amazon.com/Design-Implementation-Operating-Addison-Wesley-Systems/dp/0201549794 -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca