From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 19 20:22:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA17162 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 20:22:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out4.ibm.net (out4.ibm.net [165.87.194.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA17132 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 20:22:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jay_moseley@ibm.net) Received: from slip166-72-174-11.tx.us.ibm.net (slip166-72-174-11.tx.us.ibm.net [166.72.174.11]) by out4.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id EAA55282 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 04:22:10 GMT Message-Id: <199803200422.EAA55282@out4.ibm.net> From: "Jay Moseley" To: "freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Thu, 19 Mar 98 22:22:01 -0600 Reply-To: "Jay Moseley" X-Mailer: PMMail 1.95a for OS/2 X-Tag: ** TagIt/2 v2.0 ** by Robert Spangler [#012] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: bsd install (Lehey's book on BSD?) Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:48:54 -0800, Joey Garcia wrote: > >What's this book on BSD? Lehey? is that the author? I've been looking >around for BSD books, I'm currently running Linux and I'm deciding on >making the switch to FreeBSD, but I wanted some actual printed >documentation such as books or magazines. Too bad there isn't a FreeBSD >Journal (For those of you that don't know there is a monthly printed >magazine called Linux Journal which is pretty good and pretty helpful for >beginners and advanced users). Joey, Lehey's book is great and worth the price of buying the CD/Book package IMO, but I would also recommend 'UNIX for the Impatient' (2nd edition) by Paul W. Abrahams and Bruce R. Larson, ISBN 0201823764. Yes, it was a bit pricey at approx $30, but is well worth the price. It is more of a reference book than a 'read start to finish' kind of book. But, it explains the differences in commands between the different versions of UNIX and when there is a major difference, it is going to be great to know just which options work on BSD. Regards, Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message