From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 10 12:54:40 2004 Return-Path: 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 0585316A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:54:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gizmo07bw.bigpond.com (gizmo07bw.bigpond.com [144.140.70.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E52E943D46 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:54:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ekeberg@bigpond.net.au) Received: (qmail 23010 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2004 12:54:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO BWMAM18.bigpond.com) (144.135.24.118) by gizmo07bw.bigpond.com with SMTP; 10 Dec 2004 12:54:34 -0000 Received: from cpe-144-137-192-137.sa.bigpond.net.au ([144.137.192.137]) by BWMAM18.bigpond.com(MAM REL_3_4_2a 288/6785015) with SMTP id 6785015; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:54:33 +1000 From: Hugh Ekeberg To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:24:26 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412102224.27153.ekeberg@bigpond.net.au> Subject: Re: bsd book X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:54:40 -0000 On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 22:02, Florian Hengstberger wrote: > Hi! > I need help concerning free-bsd literature: > > Two books seem to be interesting ("the complete freebsd", > "absolute bsd") but although I had a look at both I'm not quite > sure which one to buy. > What I want is a deep bsd-specific guide covering mostly freebsd related > topic such as the kernel, system administration and of > course as much networking as possible. > I want to avoid paying for a 100-pages introduction to c-shell or > bash (with wich I'm now familiar with) or a man-page like overview > of the basic unix commands (ls and cd are under control now!). > So which one of the two books would you recommend. > If both are ok: what's the difference? > > Thanks a lot > Florian > > I own "The Complete FreeBSD", but a keep going back to the Handbook for most of my information. I find "The Complete FreeBSD a little too general for my needs. The operating-system specific books don't go into networking too deeply. I thoroughly recommend :TCP/IP Network Administration" to set up your FreeBSD networks, servers and routers. The TCP/IP book explains differences for FreeBSD as well as Red Hat, Solaris and others.