From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Feb 2 21:51:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ns6.icdc.com (ns6.icdc.com [208.244.152.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB9A37B405 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 21:51:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from hackmasteer-2k (drkmage@peco.3.intrepid.icdc.com [208.244.152.57]) by ns6.icdc.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g135k8u08016; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 00:46:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Chauncey Smith" To: "Bzdik BSD" , , "Scott" Subject: Re: Book Suggestions for a newbie Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 00:36:56 -0500 Message-ID: <01c1ac74$caf01500$3998f4d0@hackmasteer-2k> 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 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 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 I've read that book but also would like to say I've found it very useful as a resource. it's the place to go for BSD questions and answers. I've also found it quite useful to have a couple of Unix books as well like the O'Reilly book Learning the Unix Operating system useful too. I find that due to the fact that I have stupid Unix questions that may or may not be found in a BSD book because it was over looked by the author as something I should really know but I don't because I've used other non Unix OS'S -----Original Message----- From: Scott To: Bzdik BSD ; freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Saturday, February 02, 2002 6:29 PM Subject: Re: Book Suggestions for a newbie >At 14:42 2002/02/02 -0800, Bzdik BSD wrote: >>--- Scott wrote: >> > >> >> > 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 Lehey himself) is outdated and overpriced.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? > > > Sure, why not? >Seriously, it's usually on ebay for under 20 dollars, and I'd have to argue >the fact that it's not useful for 4.x---for a total newbie, things might be >confusing as some things mentioned might be in different places, but still >the book is often the first place to start. > >There are also errata published monthly (at least) on freebsd-questions. > >Scott > > > >>__________________________________________________ >>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 > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message