Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:27:05 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, kr4pz@cacs.net Subject: RE: PPP question..... With an Observation Message-ID: <199809101527.IAA11510@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <001201bddc64$bbb3b940$17dc94cd@uymfdlvk>
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>From: "Rocky Hurley" <kr4pz@cacs.net> >Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 21:43:03 -0500 [Massive elision -- dhw] >.... I have searched and read, currently in >3 store bought books at this time trying to scratch every bit of info and >help I can. I was wondering why I never see any books on FreeBSD on the >store shelves but the same shelves 2 or more have books on Linux and one >on ATT and Solaris. Nothing on BSD.... Although I don't know which bookstores you visited, it's likely that there is a degree of misunderstanding here. Many of the "normal" UNIX- and TCP/IP-oriented books, especially those that address BSD-flavored UNIX, are quite applicable to FreeBSD. Yes, there are variations from one UNIX(-like) implementation to another -- and software tends to change rather more rapidly than printed material does. But there is still material dating from the 1970s that is quite applicable to FreeBSD. Although it's rather more recent than 1970s, the O'Reilly/USENIX 4.4BSD manual set is quite applicable, for example. And Greg Lehey's _The Complete FreeBSD_, as well as McKusick, et al. _The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System_ are directly applicable. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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