From owner-freebsd-announce Fri Oct 26 18:42:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from mao.stokely.org (mao.stokely.org [65.84.64.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C25A937B403 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:47:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mao.stokely.org (Postfix, from userid 2074) id 3FFA14B65D; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:47:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:47:07 -0700 From: Murray Stokely To: announce@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD Handbook, 2nd Edition Message-ID: <20011026174707.A23887@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The FreeBSD Handbook, 2nd Edition is now available. The FreeBSD Handbook is the primary source of documentation produced by the FreeBSD Documentation Project. This new edition contains over 650 pages of material about FreeBSD and has been completely updated to reflect FreeBSD 4.X and 5.0-CURRENT. The following changes have been made since the first edition : (Taken from the preface) * A complete index and several new appendices have been added. * All ASCII figures have been replaced by graphical diagrams. * A standard synopsis has been added to each chapter to give a quick summary of what information the chapter contains, and what the reader is expected to know. * The content has been logically reorganized into three parts: "Getting Started", "System Administration", and "Appendices". * The typsetting has been significantly enhanced to make the text easier to read. * Chapter 2 ("Installing FreeBSD") was completely rewritten with many screenshots added to make it easier for new users to grasp the text. * Chapter 3 ("Unix Basics") has been expanded to contain additional information about processes, daemons, and signals. * Chapter 4 ("Installing Applications") has been expanded to contain additional information about binary package management. * Chapter 5 ("The X Window System") has been completely rewritten with an emphasis on using modern desktop technologies such as KDE and GNOME on XFree86 4.x. * Chapter 6 ("Configuration and Tuning") is a new chapter for this edition! * Chapter 7 ("The FreeBSD Booting Process") has been expanded. * Chapter 12 ("Storage") has been rewritten from what used to be two separate chapters on "Disks" and "Backups". We feel that the topics are easier to comprehend when presented as a single chapter. A section on RAID (both hardware and software) has also been added. * Chapter 14 ("Sound") is a new chapter for this edition! * Chapter 15 ("Serial Communications") has been completely reorganized and updated for FreeBSD 4.X/5.X. * Chapter 16 ("PPP and SLIP") has been substantially updated. * Chapter 17 ("Advanced Networking") has been greatly expanded with many new sections. * Chapter 18 ("Electronic Mail") has been expanded to include more information about configuring sendmail. * Chapter 20 ("Linux Compatibility") has been expanded to include information about installing Oracle and SAP/R3. The book was typeset using the open-source tools used by the FreeBSD Documentation Project (http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj). This book would not be possible without the hard work of many people. In particular, we'd like to single out the following authors who contributed substantial amounts of text to make this book a reality : Satoshi Asami, Neil Blakey-Milner, Matt Dillon, Dima Dorfman, Udo Erdelhoff, Jordan Hubbard, Sean Kelly, Jun Kuriyama, Chern Lee, Bruce Mah, Jim Mock, Mark Murray, David O'Brien, Chris Piazza, Randy Pratt, Christopher Shumway, Mike Smith, Brian Somers, G. Adam Stanislav, Greg Sutter, Bill Swingle, Michael C. Wu, Valentino Vaschetto, and everyone else who has contributed updates to this book over the past 6 years. We would also like to thank Wind River Systems for supporting the publication of this book by paying several authors to add additional chapters to the book and to enhance the infrastructure for print-output in our open-source toolchain. This work was paid for by Wind River but has been contributed back to the FreeBSD community. The book is available now from the FreeBSD Mall :=20 http://www.freebsdmall.com Thanks and enjoy! - Murray Stokely and Nik Clayton Editors, FreeBSD Handbook, 2nd Edition --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE72gQKtNcQog5FH30RAp5VAJ0ZZQUviGOgy4QyQP8rMRGburOzcACeKiOD zFEHMoDEprDXvPNU6Ougitg= =7ktN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message