Best recommended comprehensive book for newbie to learn FreeBSD in 2015? Michael Lucas?

[Matthew Seaman]

On 10/23/15 10:07, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Although Michael Lucas' "Absolute BSD" is a few years old nowadays, it's
> still a good choice for an introductory text.  The contents of the book
> will still be largely relevant today -- there haven't been any
> revolutionary changes in most of the system, but there will have been a
> lot of changes in various details.   One exception to that is the system
> installer, which has been extensively rewritten.  The description in the
> Handbook should cover you there.  Actually, the Handbook is another good
> all round fit for your requirements.

Errr... of course there was all the switchover from pkg_tools to pkg(8)
that also happened during that time.  That's a pretty revolutionary
change which completely skipped my mind.  Sad really, since I was
somewhat involved in doing that.

	Matthew


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