Recommended book on FreeBSD

bsaidus

bsaidus

Hello.
Can you tel me the recommended books for FreeBSD.
Is there a printed version of the FreeBSD Handbook?
Thank you.
 
cbrace said:
Everyone needs a firewall. Indespensible: Book of PF, 2nd Edition

Hansteen is clearly an OpenBSD partisan but this book is still great!
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I hated that book. It's a rehash of what's already online. Jacek Artymiak's book "Building Firewalls with OpenBSD and PF, 2nd edition" covers actually learning the syntax as a programming language vs just here's a recipe for small office with x/y/z and here is one for larger environment with just x and z.

Absolute FreeBSD also covers enough or pf() that makes the "Book of PF" redundant.

For shell scripting I always suggest the canonical classic "The UNIX Programming Environment" by Kernighan/Pike. Though it's not FreeBSD specific it's still the definitive classic on using "UNIX as an IDE" per se.

My first FreeBSD book was Lehey's Complete FreeBSD. With the "FreeBSD in the title" books that one has been around the longest.
 
Compared to others Absolute FreeBSD 2nd Edition is a valuable book I can recommand. This one is in use while others made it in the shelves.
 
  • "BSD Hacks 100 Industrial Tip & Tools" by Dru Lavigne.
    It kind of "notes of sys.admin" that can be used as compendium.
  • "Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security" by Paco Hope, Yanek Korff, Bruce Potter
 
 
I need a book!

Hello,

Could anyone recommend a good book on FreeBSD as I'm really struggling to learn it.
I know some of you you redirect me to the manual (which is great) but I'm after something that could take me fro A to B.
I need to setup a small business software base on FreeBSD.

At the moment, this is for personal learning but I'll hope to offer it as a service maybe one day:)

Thank you
Fred
 
The best I have seen is Absolute FreeBSD. Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. have it.
Unfortunately, the latest edition is several years old and starting to get outdated. I'm hoping Lucas will do a 3rd ed. But it is still very good.

The FreeBSD Handbook is probably the best for being up-to-date.
 
Arrrgh... wanted to recommend "UNIX System Administration Handbook", but in last edition FreeBSD was replaced by Ubuntu and OpenSUSE linux.
 
fred974 said:
Could anyone recommend a good book on FreeBSD
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Besides what's already been mentioned, there's The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey. Parts of it are by now somewhat outdated, but much of it is still relevant. I own a printed version that I paid for, but it's available for free here. If you're interested in (Free)BSD kernel hacking, then Designing BSD Rootkits by Joseph Kong is a good starting point.

When these forums first got started, one of the first moderators/admins started a thread about good books on (Free)BSD. Nowadays a forum search will probably turn up way too many hits to easily find that particular thread, but perhaps someone still knows which thread it was (and perhaps it ought to retroactively be made a sticky).
 
fonz said:
When these forums first got started, one of the first moderators/admins started a thread about good books on (Free)BSD. Nowadays a forum search will probably turn up way too many hits to easily find that particular thread, but perhaps someone still knows which thread it was (and perhaps it ought to retroactively be made a sticky).
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My Google-Fu thinks, that you may have this on mind?
 
ondra_knezour said:
My Google-Fu thinks, that you may have this on mind?
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Yes indeed. A simple Forum search got way more results than I expected but you managed to find exactly the thread I was thinking of.
 
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