Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:32:42 -0800 From: jekillen <jekillen@prodigy.net> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: re Absolute FreeBSD Message-ID: <56e63e3aeb709b47fd86777b3c70fbfb@prodigy.net>
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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 me specific instruction on the situations I encounter and have to engineer my way through, but analogous tutorial, or at least vaguely comparable descriptions can prime the inductive and deductive logic process. I work alone, as a hobbyist and spend a god awful lot on fat paperbacks. The investment is worth it to me. And the Lucas books hit the spot. I am reading about NanoBSD. That is the first time I heard of it. I started with FreeBSD 6.0 and the books up to that point, including the first Absolute BSD only covered 5x, so I am anxious to get up to current status. True, as some of the responses to this subject have said, at some point you would or should grow beyond needing to have books at hand. But with webmastering, hostmastering, learning shells, postmastering, general system admin, programming, there is A LOT of ground to cover. To cover it all fast enough and be good enough not to need a book occasionally, I think is a little in the realm of delusion. My two cents Jeff K
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