Customer Review: I was expecting documentation from the source code (ie. a description of how FreeBSD internals work). This book is just another "How to use FreeBSD" book like any other. As a result I found the title very misleading and the book did not do what I expected.
Customer Review: This is an excellent book! It explains many things I've noticed but didn't comprehend well in FreeBSD and Linux. The authors are very gifted at communicating, a rare gift concerning tech book and online doc authors (generally, such works so dull, they may merely serve (too often) as ambiguous... more info
Customer Review: FreeBSD and OpenBSD are popular server operating systems. They have a reputation for long, reliable uptimes and are considered by many to be much more unified and mature than GNU/Linux distributions. Unlike GNU/Linux, the BSDs are developed in a unified, systematic fashion. The kernel, system... more info
Customer Review: As noted by other reviews, this book is only half of the story. There is another guide titled: "The FreeBSD Handbook 3rd Edition, Volume II: Administrator's Guide" which you will also need to get all of the content available in the 2nd Edition. That said, you would do best to avoid both of these... more info
Customer Review: M. Tim Jones does a great job in "BSD Sockets Programming" of showing the reader step by step how to develop network applications, what to keep in mind, and what to look out for. His explainations are clear and well written. The major strength of this book is that it covers so many languages so... more info
Customer Review: I have to hand it to Mr. Comer and Stevens, they have done an excellent job writing a book that explains everything clearly with very well defined (and actually working) examples.
If you are interested in learning TCP/IP programming on Unix platform this is the only book you need.
It... more info
Customer Review: Installed and configured FreeBSD for the first time using this book. Very nice and easy to follow. Information goes far enough to allow the user/reader to take things further where needed - from other sources. The book covers the basics nicely. I came from linux and found the change over to be... more info
Customer Review: This book is full of incomplete ideas. Ideas are being ruined with sentence structure so poor it is impossible to make sense of it. The second is that the author is obviously associated with the sale of the PC-3000 and Data Extractor system by Ace Labs in Russia. This is a fine product but full... more info
