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FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide (With CD-ROM)
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Author: Ted Mittelstaedt
List Price: $49.95
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ISBN: 0201704811
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (15 December, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 112,842
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
The title says everything.
If you're looking for a tutorial that will guide you to install FreeBSD and recompile the kernel, you're looking in the wrong place. If you're an experienced network administrator/user who wants to take advantage of that knowledge with FreeBSD, you'll feel in heaven.The book is an excellent guide to set up a complete and highly reliable network server/workstation (web, ftp, mail, firewall etc.) compatible with many other OS. There are few books that accomplish the promise they make with the title, but this is an example of a very focused work on the field the author wants to cover. It's a good thing to support the FreeBSD project, but it's better when you get what you want for your bucks. However, you can get the "Handbook", "The Complete FreeBSD" book or "FreeBSD Unleashed" for a broader knowledge of FreeBSD, and when you feel at home with the OS, then get this book to fine tune your network services.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent introduction to freeBSD
This book reperesents an excellent introduction to freeBSD for andministrator experienced in working with Windows NT/2000. All the major topics are covered in a very readable way and readers are invited to make a decision as to where freeBSD will fit into their architecture - Mittelstaedt just presents the facts. All in all, the book is worth 5 stars for two reasons. Fistly, it achieved what it set out to do and secondly, it converted a cynic like me to freeBSD. Eneough said!
Rating: 5 out of 5
A Wealth of Shared Experience
Like the Unix System Administration Handbook, this book shares the author's extensive experience in the real world. So many computer books are merely rewrites of manuals touting the merits of software, but not this one.
System administrators these days deal with networks of computers running various versions of Microsoft Windows as well as UNIX variants and even Macs, whether the system administrator is running a home network and using FreeBSD as a gateway or running a more complex network in an office. For anyone trying to put it all together, from testing the hardware to email and printing, this is an invaluable book.
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