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The Complete FreeBSD 10 Years Old, Now Free

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the free-reading-material dept.

sjg writes "'The Complete FreeBSD', long regarded as one of the most valuable reference works for new and seasoned FreeBSD users alike, has recently celebrated its 10'th anniversary. To celebrate this auspicious occasion, Greg Lehey, author of The Complete FreeBSD and longtime FreeBSD contributor has released the work for download under the Creative Commons license."

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  1. Torrent Here by tpwch · · Score: 2, Informative

    since its going pretty slow, help save their bandwidth. here is a torrent: http://www.tpwch.com/temp/the_complete_freebsd.tor rent

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    1. Re:Torrent Here by lee7guy · · Score: 3, Informative

      Another torrent http://tinyurl.com/nkw6f containing the PDF and sources, from the OSNews article a couple of days ago...

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    2. Re:Torrent Here by tpwch · · Score: 2, Informative

      oops, accidentaly used the bold tag instead of the link tag. clickable version of the url: http://www.tpwch.com/temp/the_complete_freebsd.tor renthttp://www.tpwch.com/temp/the_complete_freebsd .torrent>

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  2. Creative Commons by Stradenko · · Score: 2, Informative

    Specifically licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license.

    "Creative Commons" is far too vague to be meaningful.

    1. Re:Creative Commons by bcrowell · · Score: 4, Informative

      Ah, I finally got through to the web site. He explicitly says that he's open to having other people produce and sell the book commercially, but he's using the noncommercial CC to force them to contact him and discuss it before he gives the go-ahead.

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    2. Re:Creative Commons by Eivind+Eklund · · Score: 3, Informative
      I'll follow that up with saying that Greg's usually a fairly easy guy to deal with.

      Eivind.

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  3. Coralized links by __aaitqo8496 · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.lemis.com.nyud.net:8090/grog/Documentat ion/CFBSD/

    The complete book in gzipped PostScript form (about 2.8 MB).
    The complete book in gzipped PDF form (about 5 MB). This version has minor format problems with ligatures. If possible, use the PostScript version.
    The complete sources for rebuilding the book (about 9.5 MB), gzipped tar.

  4. Re:If the site ever comes up again by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Informative
    You should make sure to check out the picture of the author. He looks like a he could be a Unix hacker!

    The author was a member of the FreeBSD core team for a little while. That's about as much of a UNIX hacker as it's possible to be...

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  5. Re:If the site ever comes up again by freshman_a · · Score: 3, Informative


    The author was a member of the FreeBSD core team for a little while. That's about as much of a UNIX hacker as it's possible to be...

    To add to that, he's also a NetBSD developer, MySQL developer, Vinum Volume Manager developer, and has contributed code to the Linux kernel.

    So yes, I'd say he's one helluva UNIX hacker.

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  6. Re:Which version? by LurkerXXX · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Fourth Edition"
    "Tenth anniversary version, 24, Febuary 2006"