From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 21:33:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF64837B419 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 21:33:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16NSPa-000FUr-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2002 05:33:31 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id 2FDBA117C; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 06:33:30 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 06:33:30 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greetings from a newuser Message-ID: <20020107053330.GE1368@raggedclown.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 09:57:04PM -0600, mike e wrote: > Hello > > I recently started using FreeBSD after using Linux for a year or so but not > being satisfied with the differences in all the diff. distributions. > > I have Ver. 4.4 that came with FreeBSD Unleashed book I purchased from > Sam's Publishing and so far I'm flying through the book and really enjoying Mmm. The problem with FreeBSD Unleashed is that there are a lot of typo's (some of which reverse the meaning of what is being said!), and some misinformation...it also harks forward to Release 5 a lot, which as we know is not yet ready for Mr Ordinary member of the Public. Which is not to say it is a bad book, but it has not been well proof-read. Sadly this is a disease on the increase in Technical books of all kinds as they get rushed off the press. Even with O'Reilly books (the creme de la creme of Computer books in my view) you sometimes find pages and pages of errata when you look the book up on their web-site. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message