From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Oct 3 16:53:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from www-2.cdsnet.net (www-2.cdsnet.net [63.163.68.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE7F537B405 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:53:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 28139 invoked by uid 1018); 3 Oct 2001 23:56:52 -0000 To: freebsd-newbies Subject: Fwd: books [was Newbie] Message-ID: <1002153412.3bbba5c4835b4@www.internetcds.com> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 16:56:52 -0700 From: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: InternetCDS Webmail http://webmail.internetcds.com/ X-ICDSUser: $imapuser Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thought this email from Andrew Moore, *nix guru and member of the FreeBSD 1.0 team, might prove helpful. [forwarded without his permission, but he's a good guy, yadayadayada...] ----- Forwarded message from "Andrew L. Moore" Hi Bob, When in doubt, the O'Reilly books are usually a safe bet. The following recommendations are oriented towards the bias that Web programming is the tool most worth learning at present. Did I ever show you the "UNIX Programming Environment" book? That is still the best introduction to UNIX that I know of. The first half of this book is a quick read and develops a foundation onto which the other pieces will fit much more readily. A book on the shell of your choice, though I would strongly recommend either the Bash shell or the Korn shell. Rather than get a FreeBSD-specific book, you might first try "UNIX System Administration Handbook" by Nemeth, Synder, et al. This covers Linux and FreeBSD as well as Solaris, et al. As you know, Sendmail, DNS, Apache, Postgresql et al. each have their own dedicated tomes. Finally, there are lots of good CGI-scripting books for Perl or Python or Ruby. Rather than seek "how-to" manuals, it is worth taking the time to seek the zen of UNIX, which is basically this: it won't work until you understand it sufficiently to realize that it's not what you wanted after all. Once you've reached this state, then you're free to start looking for Nirvana :) -AM ----- End forwarded message ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message