From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 6:14:27 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E42937B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 06:14:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu (GS166.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.205.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6339E43F6B for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 06:14:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpelleg@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu) To: jcbotha@cedar.org.za MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD References: From: Dan Pelleg Date: 23 Jan 2003 09:13:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "JCBotha" writes: > Dear Sir > > I am new to this operating system and became interested when I started to > look at a solution for a network set-up. I do not know if I will be able to > master this OS because I grew up with Windows and know nothing about UNIX OS > systems. With windows I at least can help myself and find my way around. > While FreeBSD has some very good online documents, for learning the basics I would go for a book. There's a short list at the bottom of: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bibliography.html of which I can personally recommend "Absolute BSD". There is also "FreeBSD unleashed" which I had no chance to look at. It seems people are happy with it, at least the people who typically post responses to "which FreeBSD book should I buy?" questions. [BTW, would one of the satisfied readers of "FreeBSD unleashed" care to send a PR to update the page above with a link to it? I feel uncomfortable doing that has I haven't read it] -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message