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From: Kees Jan Koster <kjk1@ukc.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is there a REAL book for BSD and some of its popular packages ?
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 09:46:45 +0000
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Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
>
> Tony <tony@gcr1.com> wrote in >
> And then, just repeat after me: This is BSD - _any_ decent book on
> Unix system administration will do. I ususally recommend:
>
> "Unix System Administration Handbook", Evi Nemeth et al.,
> Prentice Hall
>
> Last I heard, the O'Reilley Title on system administration in
> general is fairly good, too.
>
> For networking, get "TCP/IP Network Administration" from O'Reilley
> and all the other fine stuff, they sell (DNS, Sendmail etc.)
>
I second that. Also, if you want to have a book to sit down and play
from, try `System Performance Tuning', (Also O'Reilly?). I found that
I learned a lot about FreeBSD by tuning my own system and reading the
appropriate manual pages, and I managed to speed up my system quite
considerably.
Groetjes,
Kees Jan
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