| 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) in ample detail.
Michael Urban and Brian Tiemann also explain concepts as wide area networks (WANs) and basic, environment-neutral Perl programming. Whether these inclusions are extras or extraneous padding depends upon your perspective, but there's no doubt that the authors maintain a high quality standard throughout their documentation of FreeBSD and its allied technologies.
Topics covered:
- Using & enjoying the FreeBSD flavor of Unix, with emphasis on versions 4.4 & 5.0;
- Instructions & explanations, all rather detailed, appear on installing the operating system, configuring groups & users, setting up daemons (including those for network services like mail), and connecting to other computers (as well as the Internet).
This edition includes updated coverage of Apache, MySQL and Sendmail, as well as added coverage of PowerPC support for Macintosh G3 and G4 platforms. This is a most up to date, comprehensive reference covering FreeBSD 6.0.
On the DVD: Installable copies of FreeBSD 4.4 and 5.0. FreeBSD is extremely robust and powers some of the largest internet sites in world including Yahoo!. | |
