Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 15:46:29 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com> Cc: Byung-Jae Kwak <bjkwak@nist.gov>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: arrgh squared [long] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10202121538110.92330-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020212184214.5CCEF37B419@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Johnson David wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2002 09:26 am, Byung-Jae Kwak wrote: > > > You said there are extensive FreeBSD documentations. > > I have FreeBSD Handbook, and it will keep me busy for > > a while. But other than that, I didn't find much useful > > documentation on FreeBSD. Did you mean the "man page"s > > for Unix commands? Will Linux How-to documentation be > > helpful to learn FreeBSD? It will be appreciated if you. > > > could give me some direction where I can go from here. > > Thank you very much! > > The FreeBSD Handbook is your starting point. There's a lot of good stuff in > it. Then examine your /usr/share/doc directory. You'll find a FreeBSD FAQ, > which has a lot of good information, and some other more specialized > articles. One of note is "new-users", which in my English installation is > installed under /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users. > > Then I would suggest "FreeBSD: An Open Source Operating System for Your PC" > by Annelise Anderson. The "Complete FreeBSD" is very good, but much more > advanced. I think you also need a book that covers UNIX utilities in depth--to find out what's there and as a reference. I have UNIX for the Impatient (Abrahams & Larson) for this purpose. The FreeBSD-specific documentation does not, in general, try to duplicate such comprehensive coverage. I think UNIX Power Tools is an alternative to UNIX for the Impatient. The UNIX System Administration Handbook is also good (although expensive) on system administration matters, and uses FreeBSD as one of its four example systems. It is a good overview of how the system is put together. A couple of other books that have useful stuff are Think UNIX and UNIX Hints and Hacks. You could get along with one of these as a substitute for a comprehensive reference. A book on your chosen shell is also nice to have. Annelise > Online I would check out <http://www.onlamp.com/bsd/>; > and<http://www.freebsddiary.org/>; both which contain many FreeBSD related > articles. > > Do not ignore the man pages. Although they are not written in a tutorial > style, they are very useful to teach you detailed information for a command. > There are also some "general purpose" man pages that go into some topics in > great detail. Examples of these are "hier", "security", "firewall" and > "ports". FreeBSD has a much better collection of man pages than Linux. > > Finally, there is a package/port called "Howto" that contains a few of the > Linux HOWTOs modified for FreeBSD. The other Linux HOWTOs (at > www.linuxdoc.org) are still useful. The exact details they present may not be > appropriate for FreeBSD, but their general overall knowledge is good. > > David -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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