[PLUG] What about BSD?
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at attbi.com
Tue Aug 13 18:30:36 UTC 2002
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, stuart mathews wrote:
> Also, is BSD going to be substantially different than Linux,
> justifying the purchase of a BSD book? If so, can you recommend a
> good BSD book?
In some ways, a BSD system will look and feel exactly like Linux. Most
of your normal activity as a user won't be visibly affected.
When it comes to system administration, however, there are some fairly
huge differences. Probably the best place to start is the FreeBSD
Documentation Project:
http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/
Among its offerings, the best complete introduction is the FreeBSD
Handbook, available in a dead-tree edition from amazon.com and for no
cost online:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html
Also, let me take an opportunity to plug "The FreeBSD Corporate
Networker's Guide" by local author Ted Mittelstaedt:
http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com/
It's not really intended as a general introduction to FreeBSD, but it
includes some nice stuff for admins looking to replace any existing
Windows infrastructure with FreeBSD.
--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>
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