From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 29 9: 3:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CC5537BC1D for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 09:03:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA64666; Mon, 29 May 2000 11:03:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <39321AE6.C319DBD8@futurniture.se> Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 11:03:03 -0500 (CDT) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: Fredrik Carlen Subject: RE: good reference for installing UNIX software Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 29-May-00 Fredrik Carlen wrote: > Hi! I'm a one-year-old UNIX-user. :-) Our youngest user ever! Congratulations! :-) > I'd like to learn more about it, and one of the major holes in my > UNIX-knowledge is like the ozone layer over the Antarctic...porting and > installing UNIX software. > > Does somebody have a good reference as to compiling and > installing/deinstalling and so forth? > The FreeBSD ports/packages system is a really good one (even simpler tha > Wondows Wizards!!! :-) ), but I want a more thorough insight as to what > really happens in the machine. > > UNIX System Administration? > Porting UNIX software? > > Are these outdated? > > Anyone? You should definitely get *both* of these books, especially the porting book. Both are very good. While they may be a little out of date, and neither is FreeBSD-specific, they both contain tons of useful information. In fact, pretty much anything from O'Reilly publishers is a sure bet. Real quality stuff. -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message