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 operatin
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> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 4:33 PM
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> Subject: re Absolute FreeBSD
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> Hi:
> I have the book and am reading it. It suits me, in
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 sugges
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 m
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
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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
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> It is aimed pretty squarely at budding sysadmins
#top)
> >
> > I am interested if this book covers mostly FreeBSD 6 or 7. I also
> > would like to see the table of contents online.
> > Maybe, I will just have to go to Borders or some place like that.
>
> Assuming we're still talking about Absolute FreeBSD . .
the table of contents online.
> Maybe, I will just have to go to Borders or some place like that.
Assuming we're still talking about Absolute FreeBSD . . .
A review I found on Amazon indicates that it covers version 6, as well as
some information about the upcoming version 7 (since
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:46:17AM -0600, Joshua Isom wrote:
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> 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
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 o
Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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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> >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of Joshua Isom
> >>> Although I hav
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 woul
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
ht
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 out
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> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:46 PM
> To: Chad Perrin
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> Subject: Re: Absolute FreeBSD
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> On Dec 14, 2007, at 1:12 A
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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.
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By definition they would since the amount of collective knowledge is
alway
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 In
on Lucas' "Absolute BSD", or was it also titled
"Absolute FreeBSD"? From what I've seen on Amazon, it looks like
Absolute FreeBSD is a follow-up to Absolute BSD.
For the record . . . title changes for new editions like that annoy me.
It can make it pretty difficult at
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael S
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 6:40 PM
> To: FreeBSD Mailing List
> Subject: Absolute FreeBSD
>
>
> Good evening all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone bought
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
http://msherman77.blogspot.com/
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