Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 13:49:35 -0500 From: Matthew Pherigo <hybrid120@gmail.com> To: Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd 10 specific books? Message-ID: <110619C3-F757-4A8B-A983-A37DBEE1C500@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140413025118.GA770@h61m.kathe.in> References: <20140413025118.GA770@h61m.kathe.in>
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Hi Mayuresh, > On Apr 12, 2014, at 9:51 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> wrote: >=20 > hello, apologies if this is an off-topic question. As long as it's about FreeBSD, it's on-topic. :) > is there anything else that i might have missed out? > something for freebsd 10 administration! Well, first of all, there's the FreeBSD handbook, which, all things consider= ed, has as much value is any book you might buy off of Amazon. And, it's fre= e! Another book to look at is Absolute FreeBSD by Michael W. Lucas, an extremel= y good author who is EXCELLENT at technical writing. Unfortunately, the late= st edition of the book is still one or two FreeBSD releases old -- but, it's= still extremely useful and educational. And, apparently he'll have a new ed= ition for FreeBSD 10 out soon, at which point I will throw my money at his f= ace immediately. Some of his other books include Absolute OpenBSD, SSH Maste= ry, and Sudo Mastery, all of which I can unconditionally recommend for BSD a= dministrators. In fact, I would recommend Sudo Mastery for every Unix Admini= strator, so if there's one book you purchase out of all of these, it should b= e that one. https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/?product=3Dsudo-mastery-user= -access-control-for-everyone Unfortunately, besides the handbook, I'm not really sure there are ANY books= released for version 10. Part of the difficulty of using something like Fre= eBSD is that there are less people to participate in the ecosystem, due to t= he fact that there are fewer people aware of it then something like, say, De= bian Linux. This means there are less people to consume books about it, and t= herefore, less authors who are motivated to write books for it. Of course, w= hen books ARE released, they are usually worth their weight in gold. So, kee= p your eyes open. I know I will! --Matt=
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