Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:45:07 +0200 From: Patrick =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Lamaizi=E8re?= <patfbsd@davenulle.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Even more documentation? Message-ID: <20080426134507.6cc87a78@baby-jane> In-Reply-To: <919383240804251932i6043dd0auff9423c98019a7ef@mail.gmail.com> References: <919383240804251932i6043dd0auff9423c98019a7ef@mail.gmail.com>
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Le Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:32:37 -0400, "Edward Ruggeri" <smallhand@crawblog.com> a écrit : > Hi all, > > I've used FreeBSD for about two years now. Besides using Linux for > projects on school computers, I never had much experience with > Unix-like operating systems. While I get by nicely on FreeBSD, I > recently felt that I didn't have a very solid understanding of it's > organization or structure. I suppose one can't know everything about > an operating system with as much functionality as FreeBSD, but I > started to feel like my knowledge was really ad-hoc, and that I didn't > completely understand what I was doing (as if I had learned only by > example). > > To that end, I started reading the FreeBSD handbook front-to-back. > I've gotten to Part III, and while it's been very valuable, I still > feel like I'm learning by example, and not by understanding the > operating system. I'm starting to think I'm expecting something out > of the handbook it's not designed to do. I think you need a good book about UNIX concept and administration. Some spoke about "The design and implementation of the FreeBSD operating system", this is a good book but much more about the design of the kernel. Regards.
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