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From: cskinner@bml.ca (Chris K. Skinner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,list.freebsd-questions,local.freebsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 Documentation and Installation of "Everything" to 2.1 Gig drive.
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 03:26:21 GMT
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In case readers are interested, my unix box is not talking
to the Internet yet, and so I'm doing all my correspondence
using Dos/Win3.1x/Win95 software (go with what you know!).
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At 12:24 AM 5/24/96 GMT, "Bradley Stubbs"<bstubbs@seas.gwu.edu> wrote:
>On Wed, 22 May 96 12:22:36 -0700, you wrote:
>>Dear documenting dudes for freebsd,
>>Hi. Nice job so far.
>>Warning: I'm only a Dos/Windows C-programmin' dude
>>with minimal UNIX going on in my head.
[big
snip]
>Walnut Creek is offering a book that explicitly covers FreeBSD
>installlation. My recollection is that it is about $20. There is
>also a "handbook" that should be on ftp.cdrom.com. It's updated
>every so often.
>My experience with Unix has been a lot of trial an error and I don't
>really know how to get proficient except for "bruised knuckles".
>There are several very good books that you might want to
>look at:
>1) Unix System Administration, 2nd Edition by Evi Nemeth, et al
> (Essential System Administration by Eileen Frisch is also pretty
> good)
>2) Unix Network Programming by Richard Stevens
>3) Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment by Richard Stevens
>4) Using C on the Unix System by David Curry
Thanks for this info. I'll be on the lookout for these various
books on my next bookstore trip. Maybe the FAQ list for
the various unices should have a ranked/rated list for each
of the following categories:
(a) "program'in wanna do it all hacker,"
(b) "unix nubee user,"
(c) "administrator dude just wants to make the thing
go with full networking connectivity as
proxy/firewall between internal Lan and dial-out
internet,"
(d) "power applications X-user starter," and
(e) "Internet service provider with great security concerns."
With such a rich mix, anyone not fitting strictly into
any one category could mix and match where needed.
From my own experience, I've found Digital Equipment Corp's
search engine http://altavista.digital.com to be very fast
and quite extensive at finding either articles or related
web pages; similarly with Deja News http://www.dejanews.com
Just type in the troublesome keywords, and seconds later
some university student's interesting dissertation on
the topic in web format is displayed; or news article
FAQ postings that may have expired on one's local ISP's
news server are quickly brought to light! Copy these
to files for later search/perusal and things get a little
bit easier. Try it for samba/configure and other such.
Good computing. Regards, Chris K. Skinner.