book recommendation...?

[Chuck Robey]

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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