Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 01:50:28 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <jcouch@netdoor.com>, "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD HandBook Vs.Complete FreeBSD Message-ID: <000301c0fe1d$0c649940$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <01062507560900.03813@katana.amberskogg.dns2go.com>
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One of the secret of books is that you can have 3 or 4 different books with identical material, but by different authors, and every reader will get something different out of each one. It's the presentation of the information, not the raw data, that is important. If all anyone really needed is the raw data then there would be no documentation whatsoever except for the C source files which really explain everything. The information in the books that's specific to FreeBSD is the same information as in the source files for FreeBSD, but people that buy the books want the information presented differently. You may find that you prefer the presentation of the information in the Handbook, or in Greg's book, or mine or someone else's, but without going into a bookstore or library and picking up a copy and reading it, your never going to find that out. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jim couch >Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 5:56 AM >To: FreeBSD-Questions >Subject: FreeBSD HandBook Vs.Complete FreeBSD > > >Would it be redundant to buy the HandBook if I already have the "Complete" >book by Lehey? > The descriptions makes them sound very similar but the language is very >broad and they do both concern the same subject, so they would >sound kind of >similar........ > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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