Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:52:41 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Brian Raynes" <brian_raynes@dnr.state.ak.us>, "freebsd newbies" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD Books Message-ID: <002701c11fce$56795200$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <3B705769.D1BD0924@dnr.state.ak.us>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Brian Raynes >Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 2:03 PM >To: freebsd newbies >Subject: Re: FreeBSD Books > > >The Corporate Networker's Guide to FreeBSD, by Ted Mittelstaedt (I hope >the title is right? Maybe Ted can forgive me if I'm wrong, since I :-) See the book website, URL is in the sig. >shelled out the $50 US for it :) ) is a good book also and current with >the 4.x branch, in fact it came with an install CD with 4.2 release. It >is also thinner, but with less reference material than "The Complete >FreeBSD". > >I own both, they've helped in different ways with many things. I think >if you want a Windows/Unix print and file server, Ted's book seems to >have very good specifics for how to set that up (unless you want to use >a non-postscript printer, but the book indicates that that was >intentional). It was. Businesses by nature are more willing to throw a few hundred dollars at a problem to solve it rather than a complicated software solution, while home users typically want to avoid spending anything if possible and so will spend 10 times longer to get a software solution going. In the case of Postscript, the cost of a PostScript SIMM for the typical HP Laserjet is going to be much cheaper for a business than the time the network administrator takes to set up Ghostscript. I myself have used both solutions at home and I'd vote for the PostScript SIMM every time as a result of that experience. Of course, color printing is different since most color printers that don't cost an arm and a leg don't support PostScript, so Ghostscript is a requirement. But I've observed that the cheap color printers tend to drink color ink like there's no tomorrow and I can't see many businesses justifying the expense of them. So, I left the complicated Ghostscript setups to the mailing list. :-) Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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