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Title: FreeBSD Unleashed (2nd Edition) by Brian Tiemann, Michael Urban ISBN: 0-672-32456-3 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 25 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.05 (20 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Strong Mid-Level Reference
Comment: I've been casually using FreeBSD for about a year now and wanted to make it my primary workstation OS. After paging through all three books on FreeBSD at my local bookstore, I bought a copy of Unleashed. The biggest reason I bought it was that it covers FreeBSD 4.5 (the RELEASE version at the time of my purchase). It also has a lot of information on 5.0 CURRENT.
The strength of the book is its breadth. It's pretty much a Swiss Army Knife book. You could literally start with only a little knowledge of UNIX (or multi-user OSs) and build a rather complete server to host all kinds of services for a web site, or a local network using this book. (I recommend you DO build a hobby server to try out some of the examples in the book.)
There are several glaring problems, though. The biggest being technical errors strewn throughout the text. If you're entirely new to UNIX, you'll probably run into a few problems if you type in the commands exactly as listed. I'm a technical editor myself, so my "edit daemons" are always running in the background and pointing out problems while I read anything. I would say that the book has no less than 20 errors (either in command statements or technical theory) that are large enough to cause you problems if you're not sure what you're doing. Be careful when you're reading and if something looks a little odd, it probably is, so look it up somewhere else.
I would also say that it would have been nice to see some of the examples on the CDs that were promised in the text. (My CD-ROMs came with FreeBSD 4.5 RELEASE and FreeBSD 5.0 CURRENT.) The "phantom references" to the section on periodical service configuration would have been nice to see.
If you use or plan on using FreeBSD, either as a production-grade server or a stand-alone workstation, this book should be on your shelf. This either means that the book is really useful in spite of its problems, or that there just isn't enough choices when it comes to up-to-date books on the coolest OS out there: FreeBSD. (Help me, O'Reilly.)
Rating: 3
Summary: Generaly good, but with many unnessary chapters included.
Comment: I think it is very good introductory book for freebsd expect the fact that there is a great amount of pages spent on the X windows system and its utilities. My opinion is that the title 'unleased' doesn't feet with aspects such as 'how to start mozilla and print' , 'gnome' , etc. I can understand the need of presenting the X window system as an important piece of the whole presentation of freebsd but I think that reference was too long to focus with. So , only for the freebsd-related staff that help me a lot I put 5 starts, and as for the complete book I put 3 stars. If those "lost" pages where filled with useful content and secrets about freebsd I would definitly put 5 stars.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best book ever writeen for FreeBSD.
Comment: I have been using FreeBSD for about 2 years now, I have about 7 different books in my shell. I have to tell you the truth, this is the best, detail, organized, professional book I have ever read of freeBSD, not even the handbook give you so much detail as this book. If you are a begineer and want to really learn this OS, but this book. It is the best you can get.
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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: 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: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your Personal Computer, Second Edition (with CD-ROM) by Annelise Anderson ISBN: 0971204519 Publisher: The Bit Tree Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: FreeBSD 5: The Complete Reference (With CD-ROM) by Roderick W. Smith ISBN: 0072224096 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 10 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey ISBN: 1571762469 Publisher: Walnut Creek Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
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