From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 17 03:30:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACF8216A4D0 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:30:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F418143D1F for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:30:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id E37AC8566C; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:00:12 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:00:12 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Ted Goranson Message-ID: <20050117033012.GR47362@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <6.2.0.14.2.20041121082609.00bec6b0@cheyenne.wixb.com> <20041121160307.3b5123ee@ariel.office.volker.de> <20041121124010.P1330@april.chuckr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tV/+6PImfyFtriLg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Book recommendation (again) X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:30:26 -0000 --tV/+6PImfyFtriLg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 16 January 2005 at 21:25:44 -0500, Ted Goranson wrote: > > The online handbook wasn't helpful for my first problem. Complete > FreeBSD, Absolute BSD, and Design and Implementation seem targeted > toward admins and server setups. Am I wrong? I certainly wouldn't put it like that. Large parts of CFBSD address desktop setups. Obviously with a name like that, it needs to address servers too. And in all likelihood you'll find yourself running servers sooner than you think. > As an example of the level needed, where I'm stuck is I don't know > how to configure X from the incredibly primitive default setup. That's in there. Design and Implementation is a very different book. It doesn't do server setup: it's for kernel software developers. A good book, but presumably not what you're looking for. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --tV/+6PImfyFtriLg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFB6zFEIubykFB6QiMRAjSSAKChbT5anDvj5zzNKSGQZCmmwPQMVACSA62H J/If7uMa5eY0YmxTWEr4HQ== =ZcDP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tV/+6PImfyFtriLg--