From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 13:10:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 96A3E16A426 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:10:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd01@dgmm.net) Received: from lon-mail-1.gradwell.net (lon-mail-1.gradwell.net [193.111.201.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FDC943D6A for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:10:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd01@dgmm.net) Received: from lon-mail-1.gradwell.net ([193.111.201.125] helo=webmaker) by lon-mail-1.gradwell.net with esmtp (Gradwell gwh-smtpd 1.211) id 43ff05cf.b4b9.1e5 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:10:39 +0000 (envelope-sender ) From: dgmm To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:00:19 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20060224010027.GF65002@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20060224010027.GF65002@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602241300.19383.freebsd01@dgmm.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 10 years of "The Complete FreeBSD" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:10:42 -0000 On Friday 24 February 2006 01:00, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > Ten years ago today, on 24 February 1996, I submitted for publication > the final version of the first ever book on FreeBSD, "Installing and > Using FreeBSD". It was later renamed to "The Complete FreeBSD". > > I have always retained full rights to the book, and for today I've > decided to release it for download under the Creative Commons > license. See more at http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/. I was introduced to FreeBSD by a friend. He spent quite a bit of time in email and on AIM helping me and I spent a *lot* of time hunting down WWW pages and references. I'm still learning. But, I can say with "Complete" confidence that the one resource which helped me the most was my purchase of The Complete FreeBSD, 4th Edition. It's still a very useful reference now and beginning to look a bit dog-eared after being thumbed through so many times ;-) You're contributions to the community are obviously greatly appreciated by many more than just me as evidenced by the other replies already in this thread. This is probably the ultimate icing on the cake with regard to online FreeBSD documentation. Thanks not only for a great book but for now making it available to the whole community. -- Dave