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I just browsed through this book. Being tired of "that other OS out there" (no, not Apple ;-)) I desperately want to switch to FBSD. And I am only one of few, so I've learned during my journeys on the net. I think the author did a great job, 5 years ago, when he wrote this book. Back then, he wrote it for people who want to setup a server ("admins"). Since then, times have changed *considerably*. More and more people are looking at FBSD as their next OS (with Linux being often unstable, and OS-X being far to expensive (don't forget, you have to buy the machine that goes with it...;-)).
So, the author did a great job in writing an accessible book (as opposed to, many, many other books...). He writes in clear language (don't forget, not everybody knows all the "fancy academic words"), and I especially like the way how he writes in a task-centured way ("here's everything you need to know about filesystems, logically grouped in one chapter").
So I see on Amazon a new release is planned for later this year, and I only hope the author checks in here regularly to read reviews, because what I really would like to see is that the book is expanded to cover for the needs of the desktop user as well. So of course that means X, but also multimedia, DVD/CD burning, etcetera. In addition, the section about upgrades of ports and packages should be extended considerably (I'm fighting with stale dependencies all the time without really knowing how to solve it...).
The reason for my 3 star: I hope the author reads this post ;-) |
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