Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 01:30:11 +0000 From: j.e.drews@att.net To: Lloyd Hayes <wyoming_antelope@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD weakness. Message-ID: <062020040130.7425.40D4E8A30001617300001D0121612436469C990A9D0BD20AD206@att.net>
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Hi Lloyd: I heartily recommend "FreeBSD: An Open-Source OS for your PC". by Annelise Anderson http://www.bsdmall.com/freebosforyo.html This is the book for absolute beginners. If you think a port is a place where ships dock and bash is a goth discoteque dance, then this is the book you should be reading. The next great resource are the tutorials by Dru Lavigne: FreeBSD Basics http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/15 Whether judged by pedagogic, technical or literary standards, Dru's articles are works of high perfection. Finally, I recommend getting Greg Lehey's "The Complete FreeBSD". The book is a great resource for technical details about FreeBSD 5.X. I found the sections on TCP/IP and the etc file system to be very helpfully. HTH Jonathan > I finally decided that I needed to get more information on FreeBSD. I > got it up and running, then I did something else and I start getting > errors again.... > > So I just ordered 3 books on FreeBSD from Amazon. In most of the reviews > posted there about the books, people were complaining about weak > documentation, too much information about things that they were not > interested in, and errors in the in the books which seems to be the most > common complaint. In my very short recent history with FreeBSD, I've > formed the opinion that documenting FreeBSD is it's greatest weakness. > FreeBSD needs someone who can actually type to write a good book for > beginners who have never seen UNIX code. A book is needed with examples > that actually WORK! Examples that are explained in plain English. There > seems to be very few books on FreeBSD around. > > I have decided that it is a very good operating system which I need to > learn more about. And yes, I have all of the links that everyone sent > me. Thanks for all of the info. > > -- > > Lloyd Hayes > > Email: wyoming_antelope@yahoo.com > URL: http://TalkingStaff.bravehost.com > E-FAX Number: (208) 248-6590 > Web Journal: http://lloyd_hayes.bravejournal.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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