From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 21 13:37:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt050n71.san.rr.com (dt050n71.san.rr.com [204.210.31.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4075C14FA2 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:37:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gateway.gorean.org (gateway.gorean.org [10.0.0.1]) by dt050n71.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA51338; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:37:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:37:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt050n71.san.rr.com To: Richard Storey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Info sources In-Reply-To: <008d01bf1bc8$41a980e0$97d3fea9@alpha> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Richard Storey wrote: > hi > > a few days ago i installed FBSD 2.2.8 on an old box just to learn unix--fbsd > seemed like the best choice. I have a book, Unix Unleashed (SAMS, 3 ed.) > but i often find that things in fbsd aren't exactly like the way they are in > the book, i.e., the book speaks a lot to sys v, aix, linux, irix, but not > fbsd. The complete freebsd is definitely a good book which you should pick up if you get serious about using freebsd. However that Unix unleashed book is also quite good, and provides a lot of interesting history of the system, telling you WHY things are, not just how they work. The knowledge you gain by trying to reproduce the examples in the book on your freebsd system will give you a much richer learning experience in the process. Good luck, Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message