Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:21:09 -0400 From: "Edward Ruggeri" <smallhand@crawblog.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Even more documentation? Message-ID: <919383240804291721n549d778ka675614966a1db83@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <919383240804251932i6043dd0auff9423c98019a7ef@mail.gmail.com> References: <919383240804251932i6043dd0auff9423c98019a7ef@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Edward Ruggeri <smallhand@crawblog.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've used FreeBSD for about two years now. Besides using Linux for > projects on school computers, I never had much experience with > Unix-like operating systems. While I get by nicely on FreeBSD, I > recently felt that I didn't have a very solid understanding of it's > organization or structure. I suppose one can't know everything about > an operating system with as much functionality as FreeBSD, but I > started to feel like my knowledge was really ad-hoc, and that I didn't > completely understand what I was doing (as if I had learned only by > example). > > To that end, I started reading the FreeBSD handbook front-to-back. > I've gotten to Part III, and while it's been very valuable, I still > feel like I'm learning by example, and not by understanding the > operating system. I'm starting to think I'm expecting something out > of the handbook it's not designed to do. > > It seems like the man pages would be a good place to go, but my > trouble with using them is that they're difficult to put together the > information on different pages. I suppose I want something like a > textbook. I dream of a K&R type text that is very comprehensive and > well-organized. > > If anyone has advice, I'd very much appreciate it! > > Sincerely, > > -- Ned Ruggeri > I have read the many replies from various people, and they have all been exceptionally helpful. Thanks very much everyone!
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