Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda
Wow ! Thanks a lot releasing your for free Sr. ! I'm a fairly newcomer to FreeBSD and the link to your book couldn't have come in a better time ! I highly appreciate your contribution and will spread the word over those around me so they have access to the book to =D Once again: Thank you ! Blessings --- Gonzalo Nemmi On Friday 11 April 2008 14:02:00 Greg Lehey wrote: > The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web > page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading > edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. > Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no > exception. Inevitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. > > "The Complete FreeBSD" has been through a total of five editions, including > its predecessor "Installing and Running FreeBSD". Two of these have been > reprinted with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at > http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata > information. > > Note also that the book has now been released for free download in PDF > form. Instead of downloading the changed pages, you may prefer to > download the entire book. See > http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ for more information. > > Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? > Please let me know: I'm no longer constantly updating it, but I may be > able to help > > Greg > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda
Greetings, Mr. Lehey, Thanks for the great book! I am just starting to learn FreeBSD and I think "The Complete FreeBSD" plus the FreeBSD Handbook beats the heck out of any pair of books out there for Windows and even Linux! I own the fourth ed, by the way, but thank you for making it available for download! -- Bryan --- Greg Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The trouble with books is that you can't update them > the way you can a web page > or any other online documentation. The result is > that most leading edge > computer books are out of date almost before they > are printed. Unfortunately, > The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no > exception. Inevitably, a > number of bugs and changes have surfaced. > > "The Complete FreeBSD" has been through a total of > five editions, including its > predecessor "Installing and Running FreeBSD". Two > of these have been reprinted > with corrections. I maintain a series of errata > pages. Start at > http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how > to get the errata > information. > > Note also that the book has now been released for > free download in PDF > form. Instead of downloading the changed pages, you > may prefer to > download the entire book. See > http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ > for more information. > > Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe > something confusing? > Please let me know: I'm no longer constantly > updating it, but I may be > able to help > > Greg > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda
On Monday 15 May 2006 13:39, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 7 May 2006 at 23:39:10 -0700, Eric Dan wrote: > > * Greg 'groggy' Lehey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> On Saturday, 6 May 2006 at 10:22:11 +0200, Kyrre Nygard wrote: > >>> I have found a problem. > >>> > >>> I find the design / typesetting to be very unprofessional. > >>> It looks like a teenager wrote it, in Microsoft Word, but no offense. > >>> > >>> ... > >>> > >>> Let us know what you think! > >> > >> I think you're a troll. > > > > i think the book is great, easy to read, helped me a lot and also > > saved me a lot of time. I hope you're gonna eventually write a new > > edition that covers 6.* releases. I really liked the network > > section in your book. Compare that to the one in "Running Linux > > Edition 5"! > > Thanks for your support, but please don't feed the troll. I hadn't > noticed before that he's from Norway, the home of the trolls :-) > > Greg Many of us are grateful for your book. I know it helped me. As for the trolls there seems to be a lot of them lately. They must hatch this time of year :) Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com --- pgpXuvWRyKa3I.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda
On Sunday, 7 May 2006 at 23:39:10 -0700, Eric Dan wrote: > * Greg 'groggy' Lehey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> On Saturday, 6 May 2006 at 10:22:11 +0200, Kyrre Nygard wrote: >>> >>> I have found a problem. >>> >>> I find the design / typesetting to be very unprofessional. >>> It looks like a teenager wrote it, in Microsoft Word, but no offense. >>> >>> ... >>> >>> Let us know what you think! >> >> I think you're a troll. > > i think the book is great, easy to read, helped me a lot and also > saved me a lot of time. I hope you're gonna eventually write a new > edition that covers 6.* releases. I really liked the network > section in your book. Compare that to the one in "Running Linux > Edition 5"! Thanks for your support, but please don't feed the troll. I hadn't noticed before that he's from Norway, the home of the trolls :-) Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers pgpJh2IH3fkN2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda
See the beauty of http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf -- I have found a problem. I find the design / typesetting to be very unprofessional. It looks like a teenager wrote it, in Microsoft Word, but no offense. You just used the wrong typesetting system. Please check out the LaTeX Project as well as the Memoir class. It will do the typesetting for you, and your book will become a lot more comfortable for all of us to read. Let us know what you think! Good luck, Kyrre At 19:02 05.05.2006, Greg Lehey wrote: The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. "The Complete FreeBSD" has been through a total of five editions, including its predecessor "Installing and Running FreeBSD". Two of these have been reprinted with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata information. Note also that the book has now been released for free download in PDF form. Instead of downloading the changed pages, you may prefer to download the entire book. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ for more information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm no longer constantly updating it, but I may be able to help Greg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda
> > * Greg 'groggy' Lehey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Saturday, 6 May 2006 at 10:22:11 +0200, Kyrre Nygard wrote: > > > > i think the book is great, easy to read, helped me a lot and also saved > me a lot of time. > I hope you're gonna eventually write a new edition that covers 6.* > releases. Actually, by this time, I am hoping for a jump ahead that covers 7.xx as well as changes in 6.xx.I was actually looking for the next edition to buy another when the announcement of putting it out free for download came out. jerry > I really liked the network section in your book. Compare that to the one > in "Running Linux Edition 5"! > > Greg > > --=20 > > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > > If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. > > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > > > --=20 > Eric Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] > UCLA ID#103297286 > http://www.vladuz976.com/ > GPG key: FD13E94D ( B9D1 7D8D 34E0 D0B7 D3C9 4571 0BAC 1DC7 FD13 E94D) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda
On Sunday 07 May 2006 22:39, Eric Dan wrote: > * Greg 'groggy' Lehey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Saturday, 6 May 2006 at 10:22:11 +0200, Kyrre Nygard wrote: > > > I have found a problem. > > > > > > I find the design / typesetting to be very unprofessional. > > > It looks like a teenager wrote it, in Microsoft Word, but no offense. > > > > > > You just used the wrong typesetting system. > > > > > > Please check out the LaTeX Project as well as the Memoir class. > > > > > > It will do the typesetting for you, and your book will become a lot > > > more comfortable for all of us to read. > > > > > > Let us know what you think! > > > > I think you're a troll. > > i think the book is great, easy to read, helped me a lot and also saved > me a lot of time. > I hope you're gonna eventually write a new edition that covers 6.* > releases. > I really liked the network section in your book. Compare that to the one > in "Running Linux Edition 5"! > > > Greg > > -- > > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > > If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. > > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > > See complete headers for address and phone numbers I will second that. I came to freebsd from solaris (yuck), wore the covers off my first copy and never looked back. Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Mangohealth \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - XanGo - http://www.mangohealth.org --- pgpO3I8GBn5XC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda
* Greg 'groggy' Lehey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Saturday, 6 May 2006 at 10:22:11 +0200, Kyrre Nygard wrote: > > > > I have found a problem. > > > > I find the design / typesetting to be very unprofessional. > > It looks like a teenager wrote it, in Microsoft Word, but no offense. > > > > You just used the wrong typesetting system. > > > > Please check out the LaTeX Project as well as the Memoir class. > > > > It will do the typesetting for you, and your book will become a lot > > more comfortable for all of us to read. > > > > Let us know what you think! > > I think you're a troll. > i think the book is great, easy to read, helped me a lot and also saved me a lot of time. I hope you're gonna eventually write a new edition that covers 6.* releases. I really liked the network section in your book. Compare that to the one in "Running Linux Edition 5"! > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address and phone numbers -- Eric Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] UCLA ID#103297286 http://www.vladuz976.com/ GPG key: FD13E94D ( B9D1 7D8D 34E0 D0B7 D3C9 4571 0BAC 1DC7 FD13 E94D) pgpsxiYdMZviJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda
On Saturday, 6 May 2006 at 10:22:11 +0200, Kyrre Nygard wrote: > > I have found a problem. > > I find the design / typesetting to be very unprofessional. > It looks like a teenager wrote it, in Microsoft Word, but no offense. > > You just used the wrong typesetting system. > > Please check out the LaTeX Project as well as the Memoir class. > > It will do the typesetting for you, and your book will become a lot > more comfortable for all of us to read. > > Let us know what you think! I think you're a troll. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers pgpCPQnhA4tVW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda
I have found a problem. I find the design / typesetting to be very unprofessional. It looks like a teenager wrote it, in Microsoft Word, but no offense. You just used the wrong typesetting system. Please check out the LaTeX Project as well as the Memoir class. It will do the typesetting for you, and your book will become a lot more comfortable for all of us to read. Let us know what you think! Good luck, Kyrre At 19:02 05.05.2006, Greg Lehey wrote: The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. "The Complete FreeBSD" has been through a total of five editions, including its predecessor "Installing and Running FreeBSD". Two of these have been reprinted with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata information. Note also that the book has now been released for free download in PDF form. Instead of downloading the changed pages, you may prefer to download the entire book. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ for more information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm no longer constantly updating it, but I may be able to help Greg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda
On 6/10/05, Greg Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web > page > or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge > computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, > The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a > number of bugs and changes have surfaced. > > "The Complete FreeBSD" has been through a total of five editions, including > its > predecessor "Installing and Running FreeBSD". Two of these have been > reprinted > with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at > http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata > information. > > Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please > let me know: I'm constantly updating it. This is a very good book. Here it gets off the shelf again and again. But sometimes I think I do this only because I have nothing better. In my opinion, this book is far from the complete state; for example, you have to scroll at least 50+ pages back and forth to configure both servers and clients for a particular service if you need to (just because configuring servers and clients for a particular service, strangely, are separate chapters in this book). In addition, even after studying this book, I had to study a lot from other sources (Dru and others, thank you!) before I started to really understand what I could do with FreeBSD, even base things like updating the OS. And last but not least, the "unusual" Engihsh language used in this book was quite noticeabe even to me, who only accidentally spoke it. In my opinion, the name of the book is not quite correct. I am truly sorry but only "Better than Nothing FreeBSD" comes to mind. Hopefully this is a feedback you were also looking for. -- Dmitry "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda - time to retire
On 5/6/05, Greg Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web > page > or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge > computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, > The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a > number of bugs and changes have surfaced. > > "The Complete FreeBSD" has been through a total of five editions, including > its > predecessor "Installing and Running FreeBSD". Two of these have been > reprinted > with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at > http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata > information. > > Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please > let me know: I'm constantly updating it. "Errata and addenda for the Complete FreeBSD, fourth edition Last revision: $Date: 2003/07/01 02:00:06 $ " It's been almost two years since an update, Greg, I would say it's safe to stop sending this automated email. I think all the bugs have been found. ...D ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda
On Friday, 29 April 2005 at 14:02:00 -0400, Darrel wrote: > On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web >> page >> or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge >> computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. > > 5.3 is my first FreeBSD operating system. > > I have not purchased any books about it. Do you have plans to release a > FreeBSD 6 book? I have plans, yes. I released the last edition rather too early for release 5. I won't make that mistake with the next edition. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgpogRlAizqwI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Greg Lehey wrote: The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. 5.3 is my first FreeBSD operating system. I have not purchased any books about it. Do you have plans to release a FreeBSD 6 book? Darrel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda
Hi, Excellent book, by the way. Gives a different perspective from the handbook (ever noticed how two cameras give you a better account on what happens on the race track, even if they are filming the same thing ?). Also of great use when your system isn't up and running yet and you actually don't have access to the handbook pdf. And perfect to get the basics on that port system when you're on a plane. Probably one of the best books I got this year. Edward > "The Complete FreeBSD" has been through a total of five editions, including > its > predecessor "Installing and Running FreeBSD". Two of these have been > reprinted > with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at > http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata > information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 05:02:00PM +, Greg Lehey wrote: > Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please > let me know: I'm constantly updating it. I bought your book back in August...the 4th edition I think. Great book! I recently took on a job managing several FreeBSD servers and the book brought me up to speed very quickly. I am a former Linux addict and am now addicted to FreeBSD. Just wanted to throw out a compliment in front of the group. Andy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda
Hi, I have a copy of your book and thoroughly enjoyed reading it particularly when I was installing freeBSD the first time one year ago. I see this mail of yours every friday at 1:02 PM and wonder if it is just a cronjob mail. I wish if it could have a synopsis of what are the recent additions to the errata since the last mail was sent out. Thanks RR ps. BTW is your site down today ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 1:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. "The Complete FreeBSD" has been through a total of five editions, including its predecessor "Installing and Running FreeBSD". Two of these have been reprinted with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm constantly updating it. Greg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
