Book recommendation (again)

JerryN misnagid at usa.net
Sun Jan 16 19:45:35 PST 2005


I don't really understand.  The On Line Handbook really does explain it
all as far as Configuring X.org for the desktop.

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 14:00 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Sunday, 16 January 2005 at 21:25:44 -0500, Ted Goranson wrote:
> >
> > The online handbook wasn't helpful for my first problem. Complete
> > FreeBSD, Absolute BSD, and Design and Implementation seem targeted
> > toward admins and server setups. Am I wrong?
> 
> I certainly wouldn't put it like that.  Large parts of CFBSD address
> desktop setups.  Obviously with a name like that, it needs to address
> servers too.  And in all likelihood you'll find yourself running
> servers sooner than you think.
> 
> > As an example of the level needed, where I'm stuck is I don't know
> > how to configure X from the incredibly primitive default setup.
> 
> That's in there.
> 
> Design and Implementation is a very different book.  It doesn't do
> server setup: it's for kernel software developers.  A good book, but
> presumably not what you're looking for.
> 
> Greg
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