From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Oct 3 17:47:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from web9303.mail.yahoo.com (web9303.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.129.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C07237B401 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 17:47:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20011004004740.19762.qmail@web9303.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.111.4.81] by web9303.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 03 Oct 2001 17:47:40 PDT Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 17:47:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Radhika Sambamurti Subject: Re: NEWBIE BOOKS To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20011004011925.B33443@athalon.homenet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 A wonderful book I am reading right now is "Essential System Administration" By Aeleen Frisch. Its an O'Reilly publication. She really does a good job about Unix: BSD & system V but also the meaning and what essentially system admin is (hmmm, sounds like she said that already). Personally, i found Unix Powertools too difficult for a newbie and it works much better as a reference manual for specific topics. Just my 2 cents. --- Piet Delport wrote: > On Wed, 03 Oct 2001 at 23:25:52 +0100, Kastaki wrote: > > I am new to Unix, let alone freeBSD, and was hoping on > getting some > > advice on books that are a must to read?? > > I can highly recommend O'Reilly's _Unix Power Tools_, > once you're > comfortable with Unix basics. It's a never-ending > fountain of general > Unix tips, techniques and culture, in the form of a > thousand pages' > worth of of short `articles' on various subject. And you > don't have to > read it cover-to-cover, can open it instead on a random > page each > morning for a daily dose of enlightenment. :-) > > -- > Piet Delport > Today's subliminal thought is: > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature ===== It's all a matter of perspective. You can choose your view by choosing where to stand. --Larry Wall __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message