On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:24 AM, David Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to buy a copy of the pfSense book as a pdf file, with the > money going directly to the pfSense project (or the book's authors)? That > would be more convenient for me for reference, faster delivery (it will take > a couple of weeks to get the paper book to Norway), more environmentally > friendly, more up-to-date (assuming the book is being updated for 2.0), and > gives the money to the people who did the pfSense work. >
By contract, we don't have that option for the current edition. There is a Kindle version available. I expect we will for the next edition though (ETA unknown but it'll be available electronically in parts for purchase of some kind before it's completely finished and in print). > Searching for dead-tree format pfSense books, I can see three books. > "PFSense: The Definitive Guide" (Jim Pingle, Christopher Buechler, 2009), > "PFSense" (Lambert Surhone, Mariam Tennoe, Susan Henssonow, 2010), and > "PfSense 2 Cookbook" (Matt Williamson, 2011). I gather that "The Definitive > Guide" is /the/ book, That's correct. > but are the other two recommended? > I wouldn't bother. The 2010 one I'm not even sure what it is, looks like some weird compilation of what is probably freely available info (i.e. take doc.pfsense.org and some other random open source docs and put it in print). The Packt book was written based on the alpha version and I could write a short book just of the errata of what all is wrong in it, plus the promised royalty money to the project from it is nowhere to be seen. _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
