I just installed FreeBSD 4.8 on my computer and I was curious if anyone here had any good/bad experiences with any of the BSD books out there. I''ve read reviews for several books on amazon.com, but I wanted to get some opinions from my fellow GameDev.net surfers. --------------------------------------------------- laziness is the foundation of efficiency retrospiral.net | llamas! | megatokyo | FreeBSD | gamedev.net | google

You probably know that, but there is plenty of documentation on the FreeBSD site itself, like the FreeBSD book.
But you probably want something on paper.

Click NOW!

http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html

You can probably find some good reviews for hard covers, or maybe find your answers to avoid buying the book.

Interim

I know about all of the online documentations... I was wondering if anyone actually purchased and of the books and liked them... ?

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Honest, I rarely buy books now. I find most of it on line. I usually buy Nut Shell series when I find something that requires a lot of references (perl, unix commands, etc).

I know there was just a new BSD book released that got some good attention on /., but I can''t recall it off the top of my head.

Interim

The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey, Published by Oreilly and Associates.

For all the rest check out the stuff in /usr/share/doc and the GNU info pages (GNOME Help Browser is great for this) and man pages (ditto).

Heh,

In addition to the BSD-specific general operating books, if you''re looking to appreciate the beauty of BSD you should snag the McKusick/Bostic, et al. 4.4 BSD book. This book is solid, and is a great read and reference ( though it''s pretty much just the kernel and not specific API/drivers, etc ).


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