From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 7 22:52:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE8D37B401 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:52:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f785qg808284; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:52:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Brian Raynes" , "freebsd newbies" Subject: RE: FreeBSD Books Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:52:41 -0700 Message-ID: <002701c11fce$56795200$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <3B705769.D1BD0924@dnr.state.ak.us> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal 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 >-----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