Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 18:59:56 -0800 (PST) From: Tyler McGeorge <millioncheese@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, steffen@vorrix.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD Books Message-ID: <20010303025956.63571.qmail@web12502.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3AA04530.59C33A03@aviating.com>
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I, myself, asked the same question as the my first activity on this mailing list. However, I had been running FreeBSD for 3 months prior to subscribing, and I was still floundering. The best response I got from my inquery about good books was that books tend to become outdated and require constant updating of one's library. Which is fine, because, I know I love to sit down and read a book (even if it is a Unix manual, my friends think I'm strange.) However, the best sources for information are usually online. If you have a question or problem, go to your favorite online search engine and type in, "<problem> tutorial" and it will usually come up with something useful. Another good source is the wide variety of websites devoted to FreeBSD, *BSD in general and *nix in general. A favorite being www.freebsddiary.org. And there is always FreeBSD-Questions mailing list. I have bought two Unix books. My first one was the Unix Bible (which was very detailed in Unix theory but not very practical for learning how to do stuff) and (I don't remember the exact name) The Unix Desktop Guide, which is a book packed full of glossary terms, scripting help and general usage of prompt. Neither of these are nessesarily for FreeBSD. The Unix Bible deals with FreeBSD and HP as their two primary examples (the book comes packaged with Slackware Linux, go figure.) I've recently done some research on my next purchase as far as Unix books go. I went to Amazon.com and was looking for a book on socket programming in C in Unix. I don't recall the exact name of the book, but it was rated well at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. In the FreeBSD community, almost everybody is willing to help. In fact, I saw a guy walking down the street with a FreeBSD t-shirt on (I haven't ordered mine yet, unfortunately) and I started talking to him. It's a brotherhood, I tells ya. Tyler > Steffen Vorrix wrote: > > Can someone tell me about good freebsd books to buy. I have been to > the web site and read the freebsd handbook there. That seems to be a > very good source of information, but I find that I can read material > easier if I have the information bound in front of me. I also > subscribe to a few mailing lists, but as a Windows guy in a previous > life, getting all of the subtleties of FreeBSD is a little > challenging. I am interested in learing about home and corporate > use. I have seen The Complete FreeBSD and The FreeBSD Handbook, as > well as The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide. Does anyone own > these, and are they any good? The reviews of the first two books tend > be good, although both also tend to suggest the books are dated. I am > sure that I can find plenty of information on the web, but a good > reference starter book available at the fingertips would be a great > help. > > Steffen Vorrix > steffen@vorrix.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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