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Title: Sams Teach Yourself FreeBSD in 24 Hours by Michael Urban ISBN: 0-672-32424-5 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 18 December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Some Useful Information
Comment: As mentioned previously, the most frustrating issue was being instructed not to create a user account at installation and then being told to log into that account in the next lesson.
The book is going to be useful if you have no experience with FreeBSD or Unix because it does cover a lot of basic information without being too overwhelming. A better choice, however, would probably be FreeBSD Unleashed because it covers more material and does not appear to be plagued by the same editorial issues even though it is written by the same authors.
Make it a point to visit the Sam's website and read the Errata for this book.
Rating: 1
Summary: This book was *written* in 24 Hours
Comment: It's not completely useless, I learned a lot from the book but to have so many typos and mistakes in technical reading such as this is completely unacceptable. It includes a CD with FreeBSD 4.7 which is still supported but out of date.
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointed in "Teach Yourself FreeBSD in 24 Hours"
Comment: I found several mistakes such as were mentioned by a previous reviewer. Grammar, spelling, and typesetting errors shouldn't have gotten past the editors. Sequencing errors shouldn't happen either. You are told not to create a user during installation and then in the next chapter you are told to log in as that user you didn't create. One or two chapters later you are told how to create a user... the sample in the text didn't look like what was on the screen when I followed the text's instructions and didn't work.
What is even more disappointing is that the store where I bought the book wouldn't give me a refund because I had broken the seal and used the disk. Neither the Canadian distributor for the book nor Sam's Publishing in the U.S. responded to my e-mail when I tried to contact them about the problems.
I think that there may be some good information in this book, however, the number of mistakes I found in trying to install and setup FreeBSD using this book as a guide left me frustrated and without a working system.
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Title: Absolute BSD: The Ultimate Guide to FreeBSD by Michael Lucas, Jordan Hubbard ISBN: 1886411743 Publisher: No Starch Press Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Absolute OpenBSD: UNIX for the Practical Paranoid by Michael W. Lucas ISBN: 1886411999 Publisher: No Starch Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Complete FreeBSD, Fourth Edition by Greg Lehey ISBN: 0596005164 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: FreeBSD Handbook (2nd Edition) by Murray Stokely, Nik Clayton, Free BSD Documentation Project, Michele Membrila ISBN: 1571763031 Publisher: Wind River Systems Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Apache 2 in 24 Hours by Daniel Lopez ISBN: 0672323559 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 12 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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