From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun May 28 15:19:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C3DF37B897 for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 15:19:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goldtech@worldpost.com) Received: from 216-164-221-206.s206.tnt4.nyw.ny.dialup.rcn.com ([216.164.221.206] helo=leegold1) by smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 12wBOs-0001jb-00 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 28 May 2000 18:19:15 -0400 Message-ID: <000501bfc8f2$e3ea30c0$cedda4d8@leegold1> From: "leegold" To: Subject: Re: any good books? Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 18:20:11 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org imo, i have not seen any what i would call good documentation for fbsd (and linux) for the neophyte. of course it could be that i am stupid and do not have the mental capacity to understand the documentation (of course it would help if walnut creek had not sent me ver 4.0 w/the complete bsd book - since their are signbificant changes in the install from 3.x.x ), but all documentation i see assumes sysadmin level knowledge. plus most levels of conversation also assumes pro level knowledge. plus, most doucumentation and support i hsve seen so far in the open/fee software realm is either incomplete ( sometimes only a cheesy/lazily written readme.txt), or assumes some mystic divination on the part of the user again maybe i'm just stupid), or prof/ sysadmin knowledge. So in a nutshell, i think there there are NO good intro books on any flavor of x86 unix.. they all suck - i can't fathom any of the hundred or so i've seen on linux or freebsd. when documenting try a tree stucture, then any of the deviations of the path will take care of themselves - naw -that would make to much sense. guess i must be a stupid mofo. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message