From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 4 5:57:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from slkcpop4.slkc.uswest.net (mail.slkc.uswest.net [206.81.128.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C49E537BA9B for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 05:57:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jswarner@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 97932 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2000 12:57:11 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 97910 invoked by uid 0); 4 Aug 2000 12:57:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO uswest.net) (63.224.106.185) by mail.slkc.uswest.net with SMTP; 4 Aug 2000 12:57:09 -0000 Message-ID: <398ABCBC.8CF7AD30@uswest.net> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 06:53:16 -0600 From: Joe Warner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Raymond Law Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd book References: <20000804021449.18156.qmail@web1905.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------09889648B659C83E63BE5EE9" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --------------09889648B659C83E63BE5EE9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have the Complete FreeBSD and The FreeBSD Handbook (in HTML). Both of which are very good and I usually make sure to consult these before posting a question to any of the mailing lists or news groups. I also have UNIX for Dummies, which I found very helpful for learning the UNIX basics and UNIX Power Tools by O'Reilly, this is a really great book that covers a wide range of topics and is a fairly easy read. I happen to prefer the O'Reilly books. O'Reilly doesn't really have any books that act as a UNIX do-all or UNIX bible. The closest to this I've seen is UNIX Power Tools. Most of their books are broken down by topic. Example: If you're having problems setting up an Apache web server, Apache, The Definitive Guide by O'Reilly will probably provide a lot of useful information. If you're just starting out with Perl programming, Learning Perl by O'Reilly would probably fit the bill. O'Reilly is expected to write/publish a couple of BSD specific books in the future but I think it will be a long time before the number of O'Reilly BSD publications catches up with what they have for Linux. The best approach I have found to obtaining useful information is not to put all your eggs in one basket. Typically, I'll eventually resolve a problem by gleaning some information from my books, man pages, HOWTO files and responses I get from FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org and the news group comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc I recommend that you consult any/all documentation that you have in your personal library and on your system before posting to the mailing lists or news groups. Cheers Joe Raymond Law wrote: > I have searched through the internet and found only > two FreeBSD books. They are Complete FreeBSD and > FreeBSD Handbook. How would you compare these two > books? Are there any others? > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. > http://invites.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD = The Power to Serve ..Simply put = FreeBSD Rocks! --------------09889648B659C83E63BE5EE9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have the Complete FreeBSD and The FreeBSD Handbook (in HTML).  Both of which are very good and I usually make sure to consult these before posting a question to any of the mailing lists or news groups.  I  also have UNIX for Dummies, which I found very helpful for learning the UNIX basics and UNIX Power Tools by O'Reilly, this is a really great book that covers a wide range of topics and is a fairly easy read.  I happen to prefer the O'Reilly books.  O'Reilly doesn't really have any books that act as a UNIX do-all or UNIX bible.  The closest to this I've seen is UNIX Power Tools.  Most of their books are broken down by topic.  Example: If you're having problems setting up an Apache web server, Apache, The Definitive Guide by O'Reilly will probably provide a lot of useful information.  If you're just starting out with Perl programming, Learning Perl by O'Reilly would probably fit the bill.  O'Reilly is expected to write/publish a couple of BSD specific books in the future but I think it will be a long time before the number of O'Reilly BSD publications catches up with what they have for Linux.  The best approach I have found to obtaining useful information is not to put all your eggs in one basket.  Typically, I'll eventually resolve a problem by gleaning some information from my books, man pages, HOWTO files and responses I get from FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org and the news group comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc  I recommend that you consult any/all documentation that you have in your personal library and on your system before posting to the mailing lists or news groups.

Cheers

Joe
 

Raymond Law wrote:

I have searched through the internet and found only
two FreeBSD books.  They are Complete FreeBSD and
FreeBSD Handbook.  How would you compare these two
books?  Are there any others?

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