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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.se.dataphone.net!nntp.uio.no!news.maxwell.syr.edu!ix.netcom.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net> 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 11:51:43 -0500 Organization: WebSpan Inc., New Jersey Lines: 17 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970320114954.23382I-100000@dolphin.inna.net> References: <01bc348a$ada47a20$664c1bcc@tony.gcr1.com> <01bc3511$b349b6c0$f3e94dc2@hugo09.ticsoft.de> <33310785.3E3F@ukc.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dolphin.inna.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <33310785.3E3F@ukc.ac.uk> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37450 On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Kees Jan Koster wrote: > 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. Yes, System Performance Tuning is a great book. All the O'Reilly books generally tend to be great. They do not explicitly cover FreeBSD, so some things are slightly different from the books, but overall they are great references. TCP/IP is still my personal favorite. Jamie Bowden Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.