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Summary: Sometimes Good, Sometimes Bad, Sometimes Ugly...
Review: A good book for those who either need to know where to start to do something under FreeBSD, or those would already know most of what they need to and just need a reminder of something they might be forgetting.However, the biggest shortcoming of this book is that it leads you into a topic, gets you going, and then drops you right at the point when you need it most. Example: the book has a chapter on printing. The average home user probably has an inkjet printer, or a low-end laser. The author, though, has a fully PostScript-compatible printer, and goes on to set up printing as if everyone has this printer. No ground is covered for the every-day people, ie how to set up filters to allow PostScript printing to non-PS printers. Also leaves other areas short, such as updating the operating system. The book has excellent coverage of how to rebuild the kernel, but if you compare the book's steps on how to update the rest of the system (ie using CVS to get from 3.2 to 3.4) with the docs provided with the operating system, or provided on the web (especially at the FreeBSD.org Handbook section) then the author misses a huge chunk of stuff that has the ability to kill a machine (yes, this happened to me but I was lucky enough to catch it before the reboot to let the system come up with the new rev of the OS). I used the book for about the first two weeks of adding/configuring components, then realised I was getting better information off the web, provided I was willing to take the time to find it.
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Summary: A decent reference book
Review: As far as I know it's the only FreeBSD book but it would deserve 4 stars even in a tough competition. It covers installation, networking and administration in all details. I also enjoy FreeBSD 3.3 on 4 CDs enclosed in the book. I think the book lacks the description of coexistense with other operating systems (Samba coverage is shallow) and modern GUI desktop like KDE (I found it different in some details from Linux). It should also be more up-to-date.
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Summary: Nothing better
Review: Fantastic reference for almost all aspects of the FreeBSD operating system. This is a must for your reference library.
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Summary: FreeBSD Rocks, but the Complete Guide Deserves an Update
Review: FreeBSD rocks. I came to it from Linux and have never looked back. The Complete Guide is a great companion, but is getting a bit long in the tooth for 5 stars (the book is actually copyrighted 1997). Updates and errata have been included in appendices, but this is rather inconvenient. Other than this it's well done and worth grabbing.
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Summary: Fantastic and Definitive Reference
Review: I bought this book after doing a network install of FreeBSD 3.3. At the time I had experience with Linux, but was still a little bewildered by BSD. With the help of Lehey's book, I've made sense of every aspect of FreeBSD that I deal with regularly, and picked up a lot of information about how computers and operatings systems work along the way. A must have for anyone who uses or is considering using FreeBSD.
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Summary: An Excellent Referance For The Intermediate User
Review: I found the book to be a great source of info for differances between FreeBSD and other UNIX flavours. For the new user the info can be a little daunting as I think the author assumes a certain amount of basic knoledge. The only improvements I could think of would be a little more info on very basic commands and also some info on window managers (KDE, Gnome etc). Overall a good book.
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Summary: Installing and Running FreeBSD
Review: I found this book extremely useful in installing FreeBSD on my machine, it contained useful information and advice, and the usual dry humor that you can expect from any book to do with computers, as the lovely daemon story shows. Configuring UNIX and XFree can be a nightmare but this book makes it seem like you've known for years,
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Summary: Great but geting older
Review: I like it. Many things was unclear for me, since I used to run Linux. With help from this book I started to understand FreeBSD more deeply and I am expert now, I think. However, Greg must think about some update.
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Summary: Great INTRO To FBSD
Review: I picked this book up a few months ago, and it surprised me and let me down in a few spots. First off, I think it is a very good introduction to basic FreeBSD administration/maitenence, but as another review pointed out, doesn't have great "advanced" coverage (advanced being quoted because most instances involve a third party software package such as Samba that includes excellent documentation). Beyond basic FBSD use, it gets into DNS/BIND a little as well as some other interesting topics, but again... Get this book to get into BSD. Get on the internet to get better.
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Summary: The best operating system to hit the intel chipset.
Review: I use FreeBSD 2.2.5 (the next release) at home and at work. Powerful, easy to network and a great experience overall.
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