Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 08:20:32 -0500 From: "Steve Fagan" <sfagan@pmr.com> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: freebsd book Message-ID: <04f001bffe16$c4612660$1600010a@pmr.com> References: <20000804021449.18156.qmail@web1905.mail.yahoo.com> <398ABCBC.8CF7AD30@uswest.net>
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I like the O'Reilly books too. I used Managing Usenet to setup newsgroups for my company with no real problems. I've started collecting their CD Bookshelf books. For $70, I get HTML books ( Six Books) on a subject, like Unix (which includes the Powertools book) and Networking (which includes Firewalls and DNS Book's).
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From: Joe Warner
To: Raymond Law
Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: freebsd book
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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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I like the O'Reilly books too. I used
Managing Usenet to setup newsgroups for my company with no
real problems. I've started collecting their CD Bookshelf
books. For $70, I get HTML books ( Six Books) on a subject, like Unix
(which includes the Powertools book) and Networking (which includes
Firewalls and DNS Book's).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=rayvinly@yahoo.com
href="mailto:rayvinly@yahoo.com">Raymond Law</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
href="mailto:freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG">freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, August 04, 2000 7:53
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<DIV><BR></DIV>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, <I>Apache, The Definitive Guide by O'Reilly</I> will
probably provide a lot of useful information. If you're just starting
out with Perl programming, <I>Learning Perl by O'Reilly</I> 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.
<P>Cheers
<P>Joe <BR>
<P>Raymond Law wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE">I have searched through the internet and found only
<BR>two FreeBSD books. They are Complete FreeBSD and <BR>FreeBSD
Handbook. How would you compare these two <BR>books? Are there
any others?
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