From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 10 18:35:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 6C60816A420 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:35:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E0A843D5E for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:35:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so557246wri for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:35:18 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GbBb+UbvXv1mJxpoC4M2yobRpMssTtAUwvqy2FbMjHGW3vlm67WGRtFdMfO5pQpUNylca2pSYTqJZvLhL0J6A1s1LFxTj7EUOKnBZcOtvfPSDsnalLVxAFoteo8RBMf8hgbsknpuouhjd15UL4a15bINrO1BBgeOkTVWN45GEYo= Received: by 10.54.25.13 with SMTP id 13mr1233198wry; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.56.33 with HTTP; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:35:18 +0400 From: Dmitry Mityugov To: Greg Lehey In-Reply-To: <20050610170200.8287216A456@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050610170200.8287216A456@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Dmitry Mityugov List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:35:20 -0000 On 6/10/05, Greg Lehey wrote: > The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a we= b page > or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge > computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortuna= tely, > The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably= , a > number of bugs and changes have surfaced. >=20 > "The Complete FreeBSD" has been through a total of five editions, includi= ng its > predecessor "Installing and Running FreeBSD". Two of these have been rep= rinted > with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at > http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata > information. >=20 > Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Pl= ease > let me know: I'm constantly updating it. This is a very good book. Here it gets off the shelf again and again. But sometimes I think I do this only because I have nothing better. In my opinion, this book is far from the complete state; for example, you have to scroll at least 50+ pages back and forth to configure both servers and clients for a particular service if you need to (just because configuring servers and clients for a particular service, strangely, are separate chapters in this book). In addition, even after studying this book, I had to study a lot from other sources (Dru and others, thank you!) before I started to really understand what I could do with FreeBSD, even base things like updating the OS. And last but not least, the "unusual" Engihsh language used in this book was quite noticeabe even to me, who only accidentally spoke it. In my opinion, the name of the book is not quite correct. I am truly sorry but only "Better than Nothing FreeBSD" comes to mind. Hopefully this is a feedback you were also looking for. --=20 Dmitry "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"