From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 18:35:56 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id SAA01985 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 18:35:56 -0700 Received: from relay.hp.com (relay.hp.com [15.255.152.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA01976 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 18:35:50 -0700 Received: from hpmwtd.sr.hp.com by relay.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA110620548; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 18:35:48 -0700 Received: from hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com by hpmwtd.sr.hp.com with SMTP (15.11.1.6/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA11105; Thu, 20 Jul 95 18:35:43 -0700 Received: from mina.sr.hp.com by hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA075180540; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 18:35:40 -0700 Message-Id: <199507210135.AA075180540@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> To: "Paul D. Jorgensen" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Todays dumb question... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Jul 1995 16:36:58 CDT." <9507202136.AA08046@uranus.acs.uwosh.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 18:35:39 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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. =============================================================================== 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 ( 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.