From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 11 22:15:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from garnet.acns.fsu.edu (gmhub.acns.fsu.edu [146.201.2.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C30214D0E for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:15:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bcc9746@garnet.acns.fsu.edu) Received: from garnet1.acns.fsu.edu (garnet1-fi.acns.fsu.edu [192.168.197.1]) by garnet.acns.fsu.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA54832; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 01:13:22 -0400 Received: from s1o3q0 (dial213.acns.fsu.edu [146.201.32.213]) by garnet1.acns.fsu.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id BAA37092; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 01:13:20 -0400 Message-ID: <020f01bee481$67a91180$d520c992@s1o3q0> From: "Brett G. Castleberry" To: "Roy Bettle" , "Questions List FreeBSD.org" References: <37B1B029.51C09A83@criterion-group.com> Subject: Re: Idiot seeks brain. Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 01:13:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I need to better understand > the background/culture/norms of the *BSD community. Roy, For general background, I found "A Quarter Century of UNIX," by Peter H. Salus to be enormously helpful (Addison-Wesleu, 1994. ISBN 0-201-54777-5.) It's expensive, though, so you might want to ILL it through your local library. Brett G. Castleberry bcc9746@garnet.acns.fsu.edu Tallahassee, Florida To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message