Re: books
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 28. July 2003 04:25, Karl Agee wrote: Ok, so, if you could buy only ONE of the currently available FreeBSD books, which one would it be??? First, you the handbook available both via www and on your local FreeBSD-installation (/usr/share/doc). If you feel like getting a printed book, I can recommend The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey. It is rather expensive for my taste ($ 45,-), but if you plan to work with FreeBSD professionally or for a longer time, it's definitely a worthy investment. I for one just like having printed books handy, in case my computer really freaks out and leaves without access to the handbook in html-format. --karl Kind regards, Benjamin - -- Benjamin Walkenhorst eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage: http://www.krylon.de -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public Key available at http://www.krylon.de iD8DBQE/JNEtoYumWdMvhMQRAvSWAJ9Sa3PYdVrY+qJRy0BwsGoQD1DOGQCgjj0/ iWtpS063o7xzZJ+/uFyK/OA= =N+u4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: books
Its hard to buy only one book. But if I must: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your Personal Computer, Second Edition (with CD-ROM) By: Annelise Anderson (Bit Tree Press) # Paperback: 443 pages # ISBN: 0971204519 # List Price: $24.00 --- Karl Agee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so, if you could buy only ONE of the currently available FreeBSD books, which one would it be??? --karl ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: books
Its hard to buy only one book. But if I must: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your Personal Computer, Second Edition (with CD-ROM) By: Annelise Anderson (Bit Tree Press) I would have trouble picking just one. I have four plus print out chunks of the handbook at times.Each has something going for it such as friendly readable language, or higher definition detail or structuring for task oriented layout so you can look up what thing you want to accomplish and find a fair explanation of what different steps are needed. The Annelise Anderson book, FreeBSD an Open Source Operating System, Absolute BSD by Michael Lucas The FreeBSD unleashed book from SAMs Someone has walked off with my copy of The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey but it has good man page/handbook kind of detail. All have their value. I rummage through all of them for some things. But, none of the books, handbook or stuff I get from the search engines (Google and whatever) does a good enough job on the disk access, formatting (why not?) slicing, partitioning, superblocks - why so many, isn't just a waste of time - MBRs, boot blocks, the detailed step by step process of booting, and since all that stuff is really at a low lever, bit and byte fields in those things and how the system really uses them and which ones if doesn't bother with, etc.Some of that including a little bit of the bit and byte stuff is in various of the books and in the handbook, but nowhere have I found a complete definition of the whole thing. If someone who really understands that stuff cold could write a readable description of the whole thing it would be very helpful to me. From the frequent questions I see on the lists about these things, I think some others would appreciate it too. jerry # Paperback: 443 pages # ISBN: 0971204519 # List Price: $24.00 --- Karl Agee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so, if you could buy only ONE of the currently available FreeBSD books, which one would it be??? --karl ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: books
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 07:25:33PM -0700, Karl Agee wrote: Ok, so, if you could buy only ONE of the currently available FreeBSD books, which one would it be??? I only have one book. I haven't had any problems with freeBSD uleashed by sams -- Jerry M. Howell II ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: books
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 22:25, Karl Agee wrote: Ok, so, if you could buy only ONE of the currently available FreeBSD books, which one would it be??? The handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Best part is, it's free. And it's up-to-date. And it's official. -- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Books (OT)
If you are really interested in C++, I would recommed Stanley Lipman's C++ Primer as a place to start. Also, for more advanced examples,idioms, etc... I would definitely recommend Scott Meyers books as well as anything by Jim Coplien and Lipmans Inside the C++ Object Model. Regards, Weston On Thursday 26 September 2002 02:32 pm, Frank Heitmann wrote: Hi. I have used FreeBSD for about 6-7 weeks now (great system; I have to admit that I like UNIX much more than Windows) and now that I got a little better with the system in general I wanted to start to program for it, so that I will hopefully be able to help. But as I read through some code I noticed that my C/C++ needs some refreshment and improvement (especially OOP) first. (I haven't really programmed for a year or so, because I first started to study Physics, before I realized that Computer Science (or Informatik here in Germany) is what interests me much more. Before that I have programmed a lot for Windows.) The books I have looked at are: C How To Program C++ How To Program (both from Prentice Hall/Deitel) and: C Programming Language (KR) C++ Programming Language (Stroustrup) The two from Deitel look very good to me (I like the summary and exercises at the end of each chapter and I like the whole layout). The last two also seemed to be very good, but I believe they are more useful as a reference than for learning?! Maybe someone has them on his/her bookshelf and can give a comment? Oh, and sorry for being off-topic, but these mailinglists have rapidily become my only connection to the outside world :) P.S. I have just seen in the handbook that there is a book The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Unix Operating System. Is it useful in connection with the Developers Handbook to understand kernel internals? (Hey, I am at least not absolutly off-topic now :) Cheers, Frank To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
