Dead tree documentation

[Michael M.]

David Stanford wrote:

> 
> "The Complete FreeBSD, 4th Ed." by Greg Lehey and "Absolute BSD" by
> Michael Lucas are fantastic books, but are, unfortunately, a little
> outdated. "BSD Hacks" is also an extremely useful book, but aimed more
> at administrators looking to learn a few tricks of the trade. My
> suggestion would be to wait another week or two when "FreeBSD 6
> Unleashed" by Brian Tiemann" is released as it will be the most
> thorough and up-to-date book out there.

Well, d'oh ... I didn't even notice that "Unleashed" was not yet 
released!  Yeah, I'd say that is the one to buy, then, but I'll probably 
go ahead and get Lehey's book as well just to have it, as it is so well 
regarded.


> Have you tried PC-BSD? It also installs defaulted with KDE, which I
> also am not a fan of, but is really a great fork and looks to have a
> bright future ahead.
> 
> http://www.pcbsd.org

No, I thought I'd go for DesktopBSD because it seemed, from what I could 
tell, to be more compatible with FreeBSD -- at least, in the sense that 
it doesn't introduce a new element to package/port updating and 
upgrading.  But I've read more about PC-BSD and its .pbi system in the 
past few days owing to its recent release, and it does sound interesting 
and worth taking a look at.  I know some people are skeptical about the 
whole .pbi thing because of the library duplication, and perhaps other 
concerns that go over my head.  I'm not really sure how big a drawback 
that is, given that disc space is rarely an issue for people anymore. 
It's not an issue for me, anyway.  There might be a potential for 
conflicts, though, and I wonder about the possibility of dueling 
packaging systems causing a problem if you're not careful.  Still, it 
can't hurt to check it out, especially as I'm gonna be waiting a bit for 
the book anyway.


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Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
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