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Subject: Re: Handbook
In-Reply-To: <199703261409.VAA07089@phket.loxinfo.co.th> from Santi Rosswong at "Mar 26, 97 09:43:30 pm"
To: imp@loxinfo.co.th (Santi Rosswong)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:18:05 -0600 (CST)
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Santi Rosswong is responsible for:
>         In several announcements I have seen cryptic reference to a "Handbook". 
> Is there any such thing as a "FreeBSD Handbook", and if so where can it be
> purchased? 
>         I have a 68 year old brain, and a long learning curve, and although
> I have been a programmer for many years, I am really having a problem
> grasping all the fundamentals of the FreeBSD O/S. I need all the help I can
> get. 
> 
> Santi Rosswong
> 
The handbook is available at 
	http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.html
and is, of course, free.  

I would venture to say that FreeBSD is fundamentally described as a
4.4BSD-Lite based operating system.  This means, more or less, that
FreeBSD is a UNIX flavor, and (as mentioned somewhere on the web site)
a UNIX flavor with a noble heritage.  Typically, when people talk about 
UNIX in general, they are talking about either BSD-style UNIX or 
SYSV-style UNIX.  Most other unixes are based on one or the other and 
most incorporate features from both.  For fundamentals about using 
FreeBSD, any UNIX book will help.  For information about administering 
FreeBSD, the website or a book from O'Reilly and Associates
(http://www.ora.com/) should be a good source.