Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 02:00:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Introductory Book on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10105210148350.56874-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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I am just about finished with a first draft of this book, tentatively entitled FreeBSD: A Professional Operating System for Your PC. Then with a round of revisions, it should be ready to go to press. The Introduction and first 12 chapters are on my anon ftp site in pdf format (i.e., readable with Acrobat Reader). ftp andrsn.stanford.edu cd /pub/introbook I've asked for comments on freebsd-newbies (for the new user point of view) and from freebsd-doc. I would be grateful for any general comments and especially "technical review" comments, so if there are any chapters of interest do download them. It's organized as follows: Introduction: The book as a whole Chapter 1: FreeBSD and UNIX Chapters 2-4: Installing. Getting ready to install (including getting info from Windows on hardware, as it's Windows I assume most readers will be running); installing; post-install configuration. Lots of screen shots of the installation process. Chapters 5-8: These chapters are introductory hands-on finding out about UNIX and FreeBSD--some of the stuff covered in my newuser tutorial in greater detail; looking around, getting around, finding out what's happening; also installing and setting up the bash shell, and editing files (ee, pico, but mainly vi). Chapters 9-11: Packages, ports, and software (run-down on applications from the various categories). An earlier draft of the latter has been on my ftp site for a while, but has been removed. The highlighted applications are those of interest to new users rather than professionals running major installations, but some of these are mentioned also. Including figlet. Chapters 12-15: What I consider the "big four" that just about everyone wants to get working--connecting to the Internet (and using FreeBSD as a gateway), sound, X-Window, and printing. Chapters 16-17: Building a kernel and upgrading with cvsup (ports and the system). Chapters 18-21: Other resources; other tasks (getting out of trouble); miscellaneous. Appendix: Hardware Although the assumption is that most readers are using Windows, there are some notes for linux users trying FreeBSD. If anyone wants it in a different format I'll try to figure out what I can do. Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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