From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 26 12:02:46 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 48B7B10657A6 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:02:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from patfbsd@davenulle.org) Received: from smtp.lamaiziere.net (net.lamaiziere.net [213.186.42.107]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CE668FC35 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:02:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from patfbsd@davenulle.org) Received: from baby-jane.lamaiziere.net (unknown [77.192.158.73]) by smtp.lamaiziere.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E72D1180599 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:45:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from baby-jane (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by baby-jane.lamaiziere.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E4A400F59 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:45:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:45:07 +0200 From: Patrick =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Lamaizi=E8re?= To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080426134507.6cc87a78@baby-jane> In-Reply-To: <919383240804251932i6043dd0auff9423c98019a7ef@mail.gmail.com> References: <919383240804251932i6043dd0auff9423c98019a7ef@mail.gmail.com> Organization: /dave/nulle X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.8; i386-apple-darwin9.2.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 12:02:52 -0000 Le Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:32:37 -0400, "Edward Ruggeri" a écrit : > 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. I think you need a good book about UNIX concept and administration. Some spoke about "The design and implementation of the FreeBSD operating system", this is a good book but much more about the design of the kernel. Regards.