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Date:      Thu, 25 Jul 1996 08:45:00 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Leon Kaplan <kaplan@CSlab.tuwien.ac.at>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Good FreeBSD book (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199607250645.IAA27657@trick.cslab.tuwien.ac.at>

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Hi!

> 
> I've been asking around for weeks, and from what I get, the only book for
> FreeBSD is the one you have. (I don't mean the only good one, I mean the
> only one in existence.) Some people recommend various BSD4.4 books, but
> the ones I've found are little more than a hard copy of the man pages.
> 
> One other book that has been frequently recommended to me is "UNIX System
> Administration Handbook" by Evi Nemeth, et.al. 2nd edition. (NOT 1st).
> 
> I ordered it from www.bookpool.com, who I think has the best price
> available, even with the UPS 3-day charges included.
> 
Ok, this is not a FreeBSD specific book, but it is a classical and in
in my opinion a very very good one too. Its called:

The Design and implementation of the BSD 4.3 Operating System

I forgot the author. Again - I don't know how much the FreeBSD we are using
differs from BSD 4.3 but this book will give you a very good and detailed
understanding of the kernel algorithms thus you'll undertand kernel error
messages like "data modified on freelist [...]" (this one keeps popping up
on my system BTW - I understand it more or less, but I can't fix it ;-))))


greetings,
Leon Aaron Kaplan.



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