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Date:      Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:45:48 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>
To:        Volker Kindermann <ml@ps102.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: book recommendation...?
Message-ID:  <20041121124010.P1330@april.chuckr.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041121160307.3b5123ee@ariel.office.volker.de>
References:  <6.2.0.14.2.20041121082609.00bec6b0@cheyenne.wixb.com> <20041121160307.3b5123ee@ariel.office.volker.de>

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On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Volker Kindermann wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> > I am looking for a good FreeBSD book recomendation
> > that would over the 5.x series and be available in Barnes/Noble
> > locally.
>
> I would recommend Michal Lucas' "Absolute BSD" from NoStarch Press. Only caveat is perhaps that it was written in 2002.

I am surprised that the first book suggested *wasn't* this one:  The
Design & Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (McKusick &
Neville-Neil).  This bad boy is written for FreeBSD 5.2, which means
(rather miraculously) that it's actually up to date, full of real life
descriptions, and about as useful a book on Unix as you could possibly
purchase.

It rather depends on what sort of book you're going after, because this IS
a rather academically oriented book ... it's not for beginners, it assumes
you are a journeyman programmer.  I loved it, best, highest
recommendation.

>
>  -volker
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