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Subject: Re: will have 4th FreeBSD Edition handbook?
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On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, Alvaro Castillo wrote:

> Hello world!
>
> Yes, The 3rd Edition of FreeBSD's Handbook is more old than Noe's Ark
> (is for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x versions).
> The Handbook today has got a lot of changes (I presume with FreeBSD
> 9.0-RELEASE more yet). I'm interesting buy this handbook, but is so
> old....
>

You might be better off purchasing "Absolute FreeBSD" which has a more 
recent 2nd edition:

   http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593271514/

and which covers much the same territory. It has a good discussion of 
diskless booting, a portion of the handbook which is hopelessly obsolete.

Daniel Feenberg