From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Feb 2 10:39:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.jodeit.com (mail.jodeit.com [207.10.131.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E293F37B416 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 10:39:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdennyj [207.10.131.111] by mail.jodeit.com (SMTPD32-6.06) id A1FA4900F0; Sat, 02 Feb 2002 13:37:46 -0500 Message-ID: <007c01c1ac1a$1ae50b70$6f830acf@gdennyj> From: "Denny Jodeit" To: References: <000a01c1abbd$b654e470$6401a8c0@racerx> <000a01c1abbd$b654e470$6401a8c0@racerx> <5.1.0.14.0.20020202111131.00bb9a38@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> Subject: Re: Book Suggestions for a newbie Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 13:47:45 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail (www.declude.com) for spam. 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott" To: "Nik Clayton" ; "Mike Kanaly" Cc: ; Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 11:15 AM Subject: Re: Book Suggestions for a newbie > At 11:33 2002/02/02 +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > >[ At last -- a post that's on topic ] > > > >On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:46:06PM -0800, Mike Kanaly wrote: > > > I'm wondering which books would be best in explaining what I need from > > > freebsd. > > > > > > The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide > > > >Is probably too advanced for your needs. It might be useful if you're > >planning on using FreeBSD on a larger network with many Windows machines > >(at which point it's invaluable). > > > > > FreeBSD Handbook, 2nd Ed. > > > >You can read this on the web at > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ > > > >and then decide whether or not you need the dead-tree edition :-) > > > >A book I can personally recommend is Annelise Anderson's > > > > FreeBSD: An Open Source Operating System for your computer > > > >It's probably right up your street. I've also heard good things about > >"FreeBSD Unleashed", which is a much heavier tome. I haven't read it > >though, so I don't know how 'newbie friendly' it is. > > > It's a great second book (after Ms. Anderson's excellent book). Ms. > Anderson's doesn't go that deeply into Apache or Samba (both of which, in > my experience work fairly well out of the box) but is a great reference for > things that you figure you should know, but don't. :) > > >You can get all of these online. I recommend the BSDMall for these; > > > > http://www.bsdmall.com/books.html > > > I had the pleasure of meeting a few of those folks at LinuxWorld this > week--you should buy from them if you can, they're very nice --hey, they > gave me free stickers. :) > > Scott Robbins I'd like to add that I found Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD an invaluable reference guide. The book is published by Walnut Creek CDROM Books and available at bsdmall, Borders, Amazon, etc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message