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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. 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.

  2. Worthwhile, even outside of *BSD by fak3r · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This book is worthwhile for anyone running a server, not just *BSD users. There's plenty of specifics of running servers and configuration that makes this an invaluable aide to any sys admin. Honestly I think it gets a little slow when it walks you through the installer (!) but I guess that's why it's "complete"! Recommended.

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  3. 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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  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: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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  7. 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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