Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 12:44:17 +0100 From: Alfatrion <alfatrion@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greetings from a newuser Message-ID: <3C398A11.1040600@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> References: <F80gMi41xY5PLkJUz4W0000898c@hotmail.com> <20020107053330.GE1368@raggedclown.net>
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Cliff Sarginson wrote: > 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. > > I have read some of the book and find it easy to read. When you come a cross a simple type just read over it. And if it make the stuff so unclear just post a message to this newsgroup. What if found strange, whas that it did have a page about linux and the distrubtion, but jet didn't say anyting about NetBSD, OpendBSD and BSDi. Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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