[PC-BSD Testing] What do you recommend for the newbies; What book to study etc

[Dale Scott]

I bought the PC-BSD Users Handbook by Drew Lavigne, mostly for GUI-level
coverage of KDE (I'm more familiar with GNOME, but I don't think it's a sure
thing for v3 to ever be available for FBSD), and jails, and it was worth it.
If you want more depth though, you'll have to go to the PC-BSD on-line docs,
then the FreeBSD books (and the on-line FBSD handbook).

 

FreeBSD books in my library:

 

.          "Absolute FreeBSD" by Lucas (~ fbsd-7), my first general go-to

.         "FreeBSD Unleashed" (it's early bsd-6, and I found it cheap on
Amazon) To me, it has a more hard-core sysadmin feel than Lucas does (I find
Lucas more readable) with different material, and 

.         "Building a Server with FreeBSD 7" by Hong. It's a recipe book and
helped me though my first system, and is still my go-to for quickly
following a restore-from-dump procedure, and looking up where the config
files are an application.

 

If I was a newb looking for something to dig into, I'd think about
high-level cloud and networking, and how to migrate a local system (web
application or group of applications, possibly in a jail, or some sort of
pc-bsd or freesbd "instance"), to a cloud service (perhaps a FreeBSD machine
in the Goggle cloud), as much as possible through a GUI (for a basic
tutorial, but with application to a production-oriented process).

 

Dale

 

From: testing-bounces at lists.pcbsd.org
[mailto:testing-bounces at lists.pcbsd.org] On Behalf Of Bridger Dyson-Smith
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 6:06 AM
To: PC-BSD Testing list
Subject: Re: [PC-BSD Testing] What do you recommend for the newbies; What
book to study etc

 

Hi Hans,

 

I've gotten some excellent mileage out of the PC-BSD handbook
(http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/pcbsdhbk9.0?id=zrYYvrQB
<http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/pcbsdhbk9.0?id=zrYYvrQB&mv_pc=195>
&mv_pc=195) -- well-written & thoroughly cited. 

 

Cheers!

Bridger

 

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Hans Ruhe <hansruhe1 at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Lars,
Just did, I ordered the Absolute FreeBSD book :-)

Thanks again,
Best regards,
Hans

 

2012/8/31 Hans Ruhe <hansruhe1 at gmail.com>

Hi Lars,

Thank you for the answer. I will look at a store here in The Netherlands
that is specialized in computerbooks. 

I took a quick look and they have also this book:
http://comcol.nl/your-unix-linux-the-ultimate-guide.html
And I found your recommendation as well :-)   The Absolute FreeBSD !

Thank you Lars, this is very helpful. I will order the Absolute FreeBSD
soon. 

Best regards,
Hans

2012/8/31 Lars Engels <lars.engels at 0x20.net>

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 09:21:02PM +0200, Hans Ruhe wrote:
> Hi Kris and team,
>
> What would you recommend to learn in depth knowledge for the newbies ?
> Which book is to be recommended for instance ?
>
> Best regards,
> Hans

What do you like to learn? FreeBSD?

If so, I'd recommend Michael Lucas' "Absolute FreeBSD" [1]. It's a bit
oldish (2007), but still a very good lecture.

Apart from that, there's always the FreeBSD Handbook [2], even in
Dutch [3] :)


[1]
http://www.amazon.com/Absolute-FreeBSD-Complete-Guide-Edition/dp/1593271514
[2] http://FreeBSD.org/handbook/
[3] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/nl/books/handbook/

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