- Paperback: 1024 pages
- Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (12 Oct 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0672322064
- ISBN-13: 978-0672322068
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.5 x 6.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,782,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Because it's very popular among Internet Service Providers (ISPs), FreeBSD is the likely Unix flavour you work with when you Telnet into the server that hosts a Web site. For that reason, it's worth having FreeBSD Unleashed around if you frequently need to log into various hosted environments, but don't do your day-to-day work on a FreeBSD computer. If you're running FreeBSD on your own machine--and more than a few Linux critics say you should be--you'll get even more out of this book, particularly if you prefer to have your reference materials on paper. It's a good idea to have them that way when you're having problems getting FreeBSD to connect to the Internet, after all.
This book explains, succinctly, how to do basic utilitarian stuff like moving files and creating users and advanced utilitarian stuff like "building the world" from raw source. Further, the authors explain Unix concepts (like the shell and its relationship to the kernel) clearly and in ample detail. Michael Urban and Brian Tiemann also go beyond FreeBSD itself, explaining such concepts as wide area networks (WANs) and basic, environment-neutral Perl programming. Whether these inclusions are valuable extras or extraneous padding depends upon your perspective. There's no doubt that the authors maintain a high quality standard throughout their documentation of FreeBSD and its allied technologies. --David Wall
Topics covered: using and enjoying the FreeBSD flavour of Unix, with emphasis on versions 4.4 and 5.0. Instructions and explanations--all rather detailed--appear on installing the operating system, configuring groups and users, setting up daemons (including those for network services like mail) and connecting to other computers (as well as the Internet). Installable copies of FreeBSD 4.4 and 5.0 ship with this book.
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This book teaches the reader everything he/she needs to know in order to use FreeBSD to its full potential. It will show individuals how to use the same FreeBSD power that Yahoo!, the Internet Movie Database, and many other high profile internet sites depend on. Whether someone needs an enterprise class server, a small business server, or a dependable workstation, this book can be a very economical and powerful solution to your needs.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An excellent book to start you on your way to FreeBSD Unix. I am from Windows and wanted to find out what Unix is all about. This book is almost perfect for my level (Unix newbie). Much better than some other books I've come across on the subject.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
One of my major projects over the last year was to move our entire email system away from Microsoft Exchange 5.5 over to an open-source platform. I chose FreeBSD for various reasons, but had no printed manual; something I find somewhat essential whilst working on big jobs. I bought this book and can now look back and thoroughly recommend it to anyone who is thinking of stepping into this field of computing. It was great for me as I had very little experience of setting up a UNIX box but am competant on a variety of Windows platforms. It's taken me from being a complete UNIX novice and guided me through setting up the replacement server, installing the required software and just about everything else. I've had it a year and still find myself dipping into it for reference and it still contains stuff that I will be doing in the future.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There aren't many FreeBSD books about but fortunately this one is excellent in covering nearly everything you may need to know about FreeBSD. I say 'nearly' as it doesn't cover some alternatives to the default set-ups such as KDE as a replacement desktop for Gnome or CUPS as a replacement for the ancient LPR print spooler. These are minor quibbles though and don't detract too much from the overall quality of the book. If only the majority of Linux books were this good.
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Excellent
Just received my copy. This book is an excellent book for the complete newbie (such as myself). It takes it time to clearly describe what to do. Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2008 by Ton
Excellent introduction to FreeBSD
I had tried Linux a while back (Slackware and SuSE) but never felt comfortable with them. I tried FreeBSD and it worked really well. Read more
Published on 23 July 2004
Usefull, but wrong focus and not the best.
1. This is not a lousy book. It is better than most computer books I have seen. The language, though, is dry an un-enthusiastic, as in most other computer books.
2. Read more
Published on 19 Dec 2003 by Are-Harald Brenne
If you only buy one FreeBSD book, make it this one
The FreeBSD Online Documentation Project's 'FreeBSD Handbook' is good. Certainly good enough to get you started, but that's not always sufficient. Read more
Published on 23 Jan 2002
Fantastic reference...
As a Windows superuser,I want to say thanks to author of this book and provider that I learned a lot of things from dual booting to system hacking. Read more
Published on 13 Dec 2001 by ismailhasanov@yahoo.com
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