From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 30 00:21:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3307B106566C for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:21:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smallhand@crawblog.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB548FC12 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:21:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smallhand@crawblog.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u52so415882pyb.10 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:21:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.22.1 with SMTP id z1mr39148rvi.67.1209514869417; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.78.7 with HTTP; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <919383240804291721n549d778ka675614966a1db83@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:21:09 -0400 From: "Edward Ruggeri" To: "FreeBSD Questions" In-Reply-To: <919383240804251932i6043dd0auff9423c98019a7ef@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <919383240804251932i6043dd0auff9423c98019a7ef@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Even more documentation? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:21:11 -0000 On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Edward Ruggeri 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!