On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Dev Tugnait wrote: > Absolute BSD is a good book by Micheal Lucas and seems like what you really > want... i havent read the complete freebsd. > > * Florian Hengstberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi! > > I need help concerning free-bsd literature: > > > > Two books seem to be interesting ("the complete freebsd", > > "absolute bsd") but although I had a look at both I'm not quite > > sure which one to buy. > > What I want is a deep bsd-specific guide covering mostly freebsd related > > topic > > such as the kernel, system administration and of > > course as much networking as possible. > > I want to avoid paying for a 100-pages introduction to c-shell or > > bash (with wich I'm now familiar with) or a man-page like overview > > of the basic unix commands (ls and cd are under control now!). > > So which one of the two books would you recommend. > > If both are ok: what's the difference?
Both books are very recommendable. I personally prefer "The Complete FreeBSD" written by Greg Lehey because I like his style of writing. It is didactically ok, and a lot of knowledge grown in years of experience with operating systems, networking and hardware is looking through. Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"