From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jan 1 18:26:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA22602 for doc-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 18:26:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from rip.ops.neosoft.com (awsmith@rip.ops.NeoSoft.COM [206.109.4.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA22596 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 18:25:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from awsmith@localhost) by rip.ops.neosoft.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) id UAA07609 for docs@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 20:25:57 -0600 (CST) From: Andrew Smith Message-Id: <199601020225.UAA07609@rip.ops.neosoft.com> Subject: Re: User-level and administrative diff's between BSDi and FreeBSD? (fwd) To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 20:25:11 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: from "John Fieber" at Jan 1, 96 08:37:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Donald Burr wrote: > > > > > I just picked up the latest edition of "UNIX System Administration > > > Handbook" (an EXCELLENT reference text, btw; I'll be sending highest > > > kudos to the authors). > > > > YES! hope that you got the 2nd edition, red cover with cdrom. > > the first edition is thinner on material and details both. > > > > > While it doesn't go into details about any of the Free*BSD's nor Linux, > > > it DOES go into details of a lot of the workstation OS's, including HPUX, > > > Solaris, ... as well as BSDi on 80x86's. > > > > a great project would be to create a set of FreeBSD specific > > notations for the book. just like the authors did for sunos, solaris, > > hpux, bsdi, irix (sgi), ... > > Way back before the birth of the handbook, I thought seriously about > doing this. To this day, I think it would be a worthwhile project. It > could possibly even be published in paper as a "FreeBSD Companion to UNIX > System Administration". > > -john > > == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== > == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============ I believe "Unix for the Impatient 2nd Ed." covers both FreeBSD and Linux.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Smith ** awsmith@neosoft.com ** Network Operations ** (713) 968-5800 ** http://www.neosoft.com/staff/andrew ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------