Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 18:35:39 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> To: "Paul D. Jorgensen" <jorgense@sol.acs.uwosh.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Todays dumb question... Message-ID: <199507210135.AA075180540@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Jul 1995 16:36:58 CDT." <9507202136.AA08046@uranus.acs.uwosh.edu>
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> I have see several mentions on this book:
>
> > Okay, I bought Nemeth, the red book, and a light is slowly starting
>
> but didn't find any references to it in the FAQ's. Could someone tell
> me what exactly is this book? Thanks much, Paul
I recently submitted some additions for the FAQ, and I added a
short section on books which included that book. Some people may find
it interesting, and so I've appended it to the end of this message.
I don't know if it'll make it into the FAQ, though.
-- Darryl Okahata
Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com
DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the
little green men that have been following him all day.
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0.4: Books on FreeBSD
There currently aren't any books written specifically for FreeBSD, although
some people are supposedly working on some.
However, as FreeBSD 2.0 is based upon Berkeley 4.4BSD-Lite, most of the
4.4BSD manuals are applicable to FreeBSD 2.0. O'Reilly and Associates
publishes these manuals:
4.4BSD System Manager's Manual
By Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley
1st Edition June 1994, 804 pages
ISBN: 1-56592-080-5
4.4BSD User's Reference Manual
By Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley
1st Edition June 1994, 905 pages
ISBN: 1-56592-075-9
4.4BSD User's Supplementary Documents
By Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley
1st Edition July 1994, 712 pages
ISBN: 1-56592-076-7
4.4BSD Programmer's Reference Manual
By Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley
1st Edition June 1994, 886 pages
ISBN: 1-56592-078-3
4.4BSD Programmer's Supplementary Documents
By Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley
1st Edition July 1994, 596 pages
ISBN: 1-56592-079-1
A description of these can be found via WWW as:
http://gnn.com/gnn/bus/ora/category/bsd.html
A good book on system administration is:
Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, & Trent R. Hein,
"Unix System Administraion Handbook", Prentice-Hall, 1995,
ISBN: 0-13-151051-7
[ Note: make sure you get the second edition, with a red cover,
instead of the first edition. ]
This book covers the basics, as well as TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, SLIP/PPP,
sendmail, INN/NNTP, printing, etc.. It's expensive (~US$45-$55), but worth
it. It also includes a CDROM with the sources for various tools; most of
these, however, are also on the FreeBSD 2.0.5R CDROM (and the FreeBSD CDROM
often has newer versions).
0.5: Other sources of information.
One good source of additional information is the "[comp.unix.bsd] NetBSD,
FreeBSD, and 386BSD (0.1) FAQ". Much of the information is relevant to
FreeBSD, and this FAQ is posted around twice a month to the following
newsgroups:
comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce
comp.answers
news.answers
(<X?X> is this FAQ still being maintained/posted???)
If you have WWW access, the FreeBSD home page is at:
http://www.freebsd.org/
A FreeBSD "handbook" is being created, and can be found as:
http://www.freebsd.org/How/handbook/
Note that this is a work in progress, and so parts may be incomplete.
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