From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 6 00:21:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC18416A41F for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 00:21:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from opusnet.com (mail.opusnet.com [209.210.200.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A3C643D49 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 00:21:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from localhost.localhost [70.98.246.232] by opusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id AE12884A0090; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:21:38 -0700 Received: from localhost.localhost (localhost.localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j960PDGg000402; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 17:25:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j960P8FJ000401; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 17:25:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) To: James S Blankenship References: <20051005190309.48948.qmail@web30212.mail.mud.yahoo.com> From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:25:08 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20051005190309.48948.qmail@web30212.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (James S. Blankenship's message of "Wed, 5 Oct 2005 12:03:08 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.17 (Jumbo Shrimp, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Just an intro to the community - hope that's ok X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:21:42 -0000 James S Blankenship writes: > 2001. I'm going to work with DesktopBSD for a bit to > familiarize myself with BSD/Unix. I'd like to learn > as much as possible about FBSD and Unix in general, Get yourself some books. Old ones will do fine. There are a few BSD ones but Linux or Unix will do OK too. They are useful mostly for the basic UNIX concepts, which aren't real well covered by OS docs. I had an obsolecent "The Complete FreeBSD" when learning FreeBSD which was a great help, especially because it's good to have the index of a thick book around when learning. I don't know anything about DesktopBSD, but I'm guessing it's best to use FreeBSD because of the FreeBSD Handbook, which has huge amount of relevant info that you can learn from. If you want a great book to learn about the traditional "UNIX philosophy" and culture, but which is very up-do-date too, I highly recommend "The Art Of UNIX Programming" by Eric S. Raymond (Addison-Wesley). It might be too technical for you, so look at it before buying, but it's all at a rather high level and really lets you get a feel for what was/is/should be in the minds of UNIX developers and gives a lot of history too. Good luck.