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Brian Tiemann, Michael Urban
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Pages: 1008 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0672324563
Pub: Sams
Pub date: 2003-05-06
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 597799
Editorial Review:
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.
Reader Reviews:
Excellent (0/0 people found this helpful)
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. I recommend this book to anybody who wants a top notch introduction to FBSD. And I recommend Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD, sec. edition, as the next book to read: together, these books are a great tandem.
Very good (2/2 people found this helpful)
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.
Excellent introduction to FreeBSD (0/0 people found this helpful)
I had tried Linux a while back (Slackware and SuSE) but never felt comfortable with them. I tried FreeBSD and it worked really well. The one thing that has also helped is this book which is an excellent introduction for the beginner on getting FreeBSD working (and the included CD did not hurt either!). For someone not too experienced with *nix operating systems then this book is well worth the price.
Usefull, but wrong focus and not the best. (1/3 people found this helpful)
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. The focus is wrong. The book starts from scratch, and spend too much space on explaining issues easily available from other sources or issues that most people buying FreeBSD books will already know. At least one third of the book could easily have been dropped.
3. I bougth this book after using FreeBSD on hobby basis for a year. I already owned Absolute BSD, which I think is much better. I have found usefull information in this book, but I regret not saving up the money for Michael Lucas's OpenBSD-book or O'Reilly Power Tools.
By 'Absolute BSD' instead or in addition!
Excellent (2/2 people found this helpful)
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.
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