Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 08:42:36 -0600 From: Joe.Warner@smed.com To: "Steve Fagan" <sfagan@pmr.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd book Message-ID: <85256931.0050A4EE.00@Deimos.smed.com>
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That's great! I plan to add the CD Bookshelf to my collection as well. No
matter where you get your information/answers from, I think it's important
to make the extra effort to take Sue Blake's advice and document your
findings in a step-by-step manner (a way that will benefit users from all
experience levels) and submit it to The FreeBSD Documentation Project.
This will not only help you and countless FreeBSD/UNIX users find
information and solve problems, it will also get you more involved with the
BSD community as a whole. Just imagine how many people you would help and
the positive feedback you could get if you wrote up and submitted some easy
to understand documentation for an existing problem that you were able to
resolve. Not everybody has the time or dedication to make this a regular
practice but every little bit helps and will go a long way towards making
the amount of existing and useful information grow.
Cheers
Joe
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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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<A title=jswarner@uswest.net href="mailto:jswarner@uswest.net">Joe Warner</A>
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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
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: freebsd book</DIV>
<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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