Good FreeBSD book

Jerry M. Howell II jmhowell at jmhowell.com
Sat May 24 23:22:41 PDT 2003


On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 05:56:11PM -0500, Jonathan wrote:
> Hi:
> 
>  I recently got "FreeBSD: An Open-Source operating system for your personal 
> computer", by Annelise Anderson. I must say this is a really excellent 
> introduction to FreeBSD. Although the book covers FreeBSD 4.3, much of the 
> material is still relevant to 4.8. A 4.8 CD was included with the book. She 
> has an entire chapter on ports plus a very nice chapter on kernel 
> configuration and compiling. She covers the commands: kldstat, kldload, 
> dmesg, ldconfig, last, netstat, w, who, ps and top. She covers cvsup too.  I 
> learned a lot about my new FreeBSD by reading this book. 
> 
> http://www.bsdmall.com/freebosforyo.html
> 
I personaly liked FreeBSD Unleashed even though I'm not a big SAMS
advocate. Most of my books are from O'Reilly but they did a realy good
job on this book. two thumbs up. Anyone else have any recomendations,
besides the obvoius handbook and other websites posted on the freebsd
site?

-- 
Jerry M. Howell II


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