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Although I haven't looked much into any FreeBSD book, I wouldn't be
surprised at all if FreeBSD's documentation combined with
freebsd-questions would outweigh it.
By definition they would since the amount of collective knowledge is
always
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joshua Isom
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:46 PM
To: Chad Perrin
Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List
Subject: Re: Absolute FreeBSD
On Dec 14, 2007, at 1:12 AM, Chad Perrin wrote:
For the record
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:48:19 -0800
Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joshua Isom
Although I haven't looked much into any FreeBSD book, I wouldn't be
surprised at all if FreeBSD's documentation combined with
freebsd-questions would outweigh it.
cpghost wrote:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:48:19 -0800
Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joshua Isom
Although I haven't looked much into any FreeBSD book, I wouldn't be
surprised at all if FreeBSD's documentation combined with
freebsd-questions would
cpghost wrote:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:48:19 -0800
Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joshua Isom
Although I haven't looked much into any FreeBSD book, I wouldn't be
surprised at all if FreeBSD's documentation combined with
freebsd-questions would
isn't /usr/share/doc good?
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Michael S wrote:
Good evening all,
I was wondering if anyone bought M. Lucas' new FreeBSD
book. How would you rate it?
I already have the first edition, is it worth the
money buying the second one?
Thanks in advance,
Michael
Michael Sherman
Here's the toc:
http://www.tinker.tv/download/afreebsd2_toc.pdf
--- Sam I Am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
cpghost wrote:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:48:19 -0800
Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Behalf Of Joshua Isom
Although I haven't looked much into
The authors never fail to mention that their book is
useful to new and experienced users alike. :)
It does have some new topics in there.
http://www.tinker.tv/download/afreebsd2_toc.pdf
But I think I will hold off the purchase, at least for
some time.
Thanks for your reply.
Michael
--- Ted
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:46:17AM -0600, Joshua Isom wrote:
On Dec 14, 2007, at 1:12 AM, Chad Perrin wrote:
For the record . . . title changes for new editions like that annoy me.
It can make it pretty difficult at times trying to determine whether or
not I'm about to buy a duplicate. The
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 07:01:20AM -0500, Sam I Am wrote:
The book announcement says that the book is completely revised.
(http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781593271510/#top)
I am interested if this book covers mostly FreeBSD 6 or 7. I also would
like to see the table of contents
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:26:19 -0700
Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 07:01:20AM -0500, Sam I Am wrote:
The book announcement says that the book is completely revised.
(http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781593271510/#top)
I am interested if this book covers
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From: Barnaby Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:22 AM
To: cpghost
Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; FreeBSD Mailing List
Subject: Re: Absolute FreeBSD
It is aimed pretty squarely at budding sysadmins, not desktop users (X
is hardly even
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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From: Barnaby Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:22 AM
To: cpghost
Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; FreeBSD Mailing List
Subject: Re: Absolute FreeBSD
It is aimed pretty squarely at budding sysadmins, not desktop users (X
Hi:
I have the book and am reading it. It suits me, in that docs and
man pages can be intimidating and hard to translate into some
thing useful (for me). The one thing about books like this is
that there are a lot more in the way of theory and tutorial
practice. I could not expect anyone to give
On 2007-12-14 15:22, Barnaby Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have just finished it and I would say it does exactly what what Ted
and cpghost suggests it should - there are plenty of sections where
the author introduces what can be done with a particular tool or part
of the OS, and suggests to
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Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 4:33 PM
To: FreeBSD Mailing List
Subject: re Absolute FreeBSD
Hi:
I have the book and am reading it. It suits me, in that docs and
man pages can
On Thursday 13 December 2007 11:36:35 pm Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
If you bought and grokked the first book and have been using
FreeBSD ever since, do you really need a book of any kind at
this point? Don't you have enough experience under your
belt to get by without a book?
The operating
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 6:40 PM
To: FreeBSD Mailing List
Subject: Absolute FreeBSD
Good evening all,
I was wondering if anyone bought M. Lucas' new FreeBSD
book. How would you
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:40:23PM -0500, Michael S wrote:
Good evening all,
I was wondering if anyone bought M. Lucas' new FreeBSD
book. How would you rate it?
I already have the first edition, is it worth the
money buying the second one?
Is the first edition Lucas' Absolute BSD, or was
On Dec 14, 2007, at 1:12 AM, Chad Perrin wrote:
For the record . . . title changes for new editions like that annoy me.
It can make it pretty difficult at times trying to determine whether or
not I'm about to buy a duplicate. The switch from Learning Perl
Objects,
References, and Modules to
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