Even more documentation?
Patrick Lamaizière
patfbsd at davenulle.org
Sat Apr 26 12:02:52 UTC 2008
Le Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:32:37 -0400,
"Edward Ruggeri" <smallhand at crawblog.com> a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I've used FreeBSD for about two years now. Besides using Linux for
> projects on school computers, I never had much experience with
> Unix-like operating systems. While I get by nicely on FreeBSD, I
> recently felt that I didn't have a very solid understanding of it's
> organization or structure. I suppose one can't know everything about
> an operating system with as much functionality as FreeBSD, but I
> started to feel like my knowledge was really ad-hoc, and that I didn't
> completely understand what I was doing (as if I had learned only by
> example).
>
> To that end, I started reading the FreeBSD handbook front-to-back.
> I've gotten to Part III, and while it's been very valuable, I still
> feel like I'm learning by example, and not by understanding the
> operating system. I'm starting to think I'm expecting something out
> of the handbook it's not designed to do.
I think you need a good book about UNIX concept and administration.
Some spoke about "The design and implementation of the FreeBSD operating
system", this is a good book but much more about the design of the
kernel.
Regards.
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