From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 26 08:26:47 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 F24BE106564A for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:26:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@insightbb.com) Received: from mxsf01.insightbb.com (mxsf01.insightbb.com [74.128.0.71]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9BD78FC13 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:26:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@insightbb.com) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,710,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="335665772" Received: from unknown (HELO asav02.insightbb.com) ([172.31.249.124]) by mxsf01.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 26 Apr 2008 04:26:46 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiEBAKqEEkjQLicL/2dsb2JhbAAIqxk X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,710,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="235816634" Received: from 208-46-39-11.dia.static.qwest.net (HELO [10.7.44.57]) ([208.46.39.11]) by asavout02.manage.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 26 Apr 2008 04:26:46 -0400 From: Steven Friedrich To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:26:41 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 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: <200804260426.42263.freebsd@insightbb.com> Cc: Edward Ruggeri 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 08:26:48 -0000 On Friday 25 April 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" To what end? I mean, Unix knowledge spans many domains. Domains such as user, admin, programmer. I can offer suggestions for great books, but I need to know where you think you're weak.