January 2002 Issue of Daemon News

questionlp writes: "The January 2002 issue of Dæmon News Ezine has been published. This month's issue has the continuation of the tcsh article, test driving NetBSD, NetBSD's 2001 timeline, an article on embedded BSD, DOSSIER and the Meta project, and a book review of FreeBSD Unleashed."

Comments

So which book to get?

[Shanep]

I have The Complete FreeBSD and I was going to get the FreeBSD Handbook 2nd ed, however this new book FreeBSD Unleashed sounds excellent from reading that review and reader reviews at Amazon.

Is there any point in getting the Handbook if I get Unleashed?

Re:So which book to get?

[questionlp]

Probably the best thing to do is to download the Handbook as a PDF (or a PS file) from here and use that to print out pieces that you want.

Being the person who wrote the review for Unleashed, I do think Unleashed is a good book, but it doesn't cover the software that I use daily like Postfix, Python and ProFTPD :(

I have The Complete FreeBSD (2nd and 3rd editions), FreeBSD Corp Net Guide, FreeBSD OS for PC book, FreeBSD Unleashed and both editions of the Handbook print edition. I prefer to use the soft version of the Handbook (primarily the HTML version).

Re:So which book to get?

[Shanep]

I prefer to use the soft version of the Handbook (primarily the HTML version).

Wow, I have it as PDF already, though I like to sit somewhere are read through a dead tree. As much as I hate to say that, I find reading off the screen distracting and difficult, compared with a book. Which is a pitty.

I wonder why that is? I find printed man pages make a lot more sense to me. : }

Would you say that the 2nd ed of the Handbook (online), covers just as much as Unleashed?

I have this big list of things I want to get done in Linux and FreeBSD, (like setting up a seperate print queue that filters to PDF files, desktop faxing, design of a FreeBSD based CD server, etc) but never get around to them, getting it all done by hand. Do you know from memory if any of the books cover those topics?

Thanks for the reply BTW.

From the book review...

[Shanep]

Unfortunately, the killall command is not covered, even though it uses the same signals

Yeah...?

as kill but it can be more dangerous.

Might be a precaution for anyone out there also using Solaris, since it will literally kill all. Along with the other risks involved with this sweeping of Gods hand.

Re:From the book review...

[Shanep]

I'm glad I read here about killall and Solaris a while back, before I would have done the same, having the bad habit of using killall too much.