From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Feb 2 14:42:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from web13601.mail.yahoo.com (web13601.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 883A437B404 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 14:42:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020202224208.81023.qmail@web13601.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [12.225.223.52] by web13601.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 02 Feb 2002 14:42:08 PST Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 14:42:08 -0800 (PST) From: Bzdik BSD Subject: Re: Book Suggestions for a newbie To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020202154621.00c28e48@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> 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 --- Scott wrote: > At 13:47 2002/02/02 -0500, Denny Jodeit wrote: > > >-- > > > > > > > >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. > > > Oops--how the heck did we leave that one out of the list???? Sigh, I > AM > getting old. > That's more or less the bible. That of course, is probably the first > book > that one should buy. The others mentioned are good at filling in the > gaps > but Mr. Lehey's, is pretty much the first place one looks. I'll just > say > that I figured someone mentioned it already and I'd missed that post. > :) > > Scott The book (not Mr. Lehey himself) is outdated and overpriced. $60 for a book that is very good for FreeBSD 3.0 and below. Sucking up eh? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message