The FreeBSD Handbook

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Summary: Pretty much useless
Review: After I got this book I scaned it and thought it looked only looked okay. At work thirty FreeBSD machines appeared for users and we had to get them setup and locked down fast. The security and other sections of the book not only showed us what we needed, but other options. FreeBSD Rocks, and so does this book. The only drawback is lack of a index.

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Summary: comments to others' complaints
Review: FreeBSD is killer O/S, you shd have Handbook to admin, but caveat emptor:

(1) download latest rev handbook, it's only a couple Meg...(2) No, there's no index, but FreeBSD is well indexed (handbook,man pages, source) at [a website](which means you gotta have 2 PCs while you're installing) (4) You can't just throw in FreeBSD CD and hit ENTER a lot, no linuxconf, etc. Suse/Red Hat definitely newbie-friendlier. FreeBSD is a helluva lot more stable than the Red Hat 7 releases.

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Summary: Nice!
Review: Great book, there are a few spelling errors here and there but that is expected with a first publication of the FreeBSD handbook. I would recommend this to ANYBODY who is running the FreeBSD operating system!

Rating:
Summary: Nice!
Review: Great book, there are a few spelling errors here and there but that is expected with a first publication of the FreeBSD handbook. I would recommend this to ANYBODY who is running the FreeBSD operating system!

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Summary: comments to others' complaints
Review: I refer to this book regularly while working on my FreeBSD systems. It's hard to call it much more than a hard copy of the online handbook. The lack of an index is an annoying shortcoming. The book is a good companion to Greg Lehey's "The Complete FreeBSD" book. For basic setup, configuration, or general information it's very useful.

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Summary: Useful Reference
Review: I refer to this book regularly while working on my FreeBSD systems. It's hard to call it much more than a hard copy of the online handbook. The lack of an index is an annoying shortcoming. The book is a good companion to Greg Lehey's "The Complete FreeBSD" book. For basic setup, configuration, or general information it's very useful.

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Summary: FreeBSD
Review: i'm using linux for a long time now and i decided a few months ago to give FreeBSD a try and i've read very many tutorials on the web and one book until i found this book it is indeed true that its not very helpful to explain newbies how to make their own port on page 69 and to show them how to build your own kernel right after that... but whats the problem with that you dont have to read the book from page 1 to 489 without having a look on the chapters that are more interesting? everybody can read this book as he wants and everybody who is interested in FreeBSD should read that book especially YOU : >

lets make FreeBSD as popular as Linux is now, its worth it ! give it a try!

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