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Building an Internet Server with FreeBSD 6
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Building an Internet Server with FreeBSD 6 |
Author: Bryan Hong
Published: 2006-05-09 |
List price: $29.95
Our price: $29.95
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As of: December 03rd, 2008 04:23:39 PM
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Just follow ...
Read it, follow it to the word and you have a working system. It is that simple.
 As a Mac user I felt somewhat left out...
This really is a very good book especially if you wish to build a server to provide services to Windows clients. I wish there was coverage for installing Netatalk and Avahi or other such zero configuration networking protocol to serve Mac clients. After all, FreeBSD is a UNIX type OS and Mac OS X is UNIX as well. With the rapid growth of the Mac OS in the last couple of years coverage of services to better work with the Mac would have been appreciated.
Good quick reference
A good quick reference, and ties in well with the topics presented in Absolute FreeBSD (2nd ed) by M Lucas. But Lucas has a much better writing style, and gets across his technical info in a better way, by explaining why things work the way they do.
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br /Building a Server with FreeBSD 7 is kind of the quick and dirty, do this, do this, done. And although it has helped me set up FreeBSD on my first try as a competent server, I'm still trying to find out why the book tells you to do certain things and how components work together. With the info from Lucas in his books, you know how things work together and why you're instructed to do certain things.
A quick and Dirty Guide to FreeBSD
I was initially very impressed by this book until I ran into a problem with the phpbb3 installation. Like so many other Tech books I'm learning to live with authors who don't actually don't try out the instructions in there own book. Notably you cannot successfully run the application phpBB3 the way it's laid out in the book. I was able to Google a solution to the problem, but then why buy the book? If Mr. Hong doesn't want to go into the details of a what "PHP" is or in this case php5-extensions, I'm ok with that. I like quick and dirty guides... but if Mr. Hong had actually spent the time to try out his own book these problems could have been avoided.
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br /More aggravation came my when I found this book was ripped to the underground E-book market. Great! Another $30 bucks wasted.
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br /So out of 5 stars I rate this a 3, A quick and Dirty guide to getting things done with FreeBSD. But buyers be warned, you must be willing to work your way through the dirt. There's plent of it.
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 A step by step guide sure to educate even the most clueless technophobes
It may be a hard start, but the ultimate product will be worth it. "Building a Server with FreeBSD7: A Modular Approach" is a complete and comprehensive guide to building a web server with the free operating system known as FreeBSD. A step by step guide sure to educate even the most clueless technophobes, "Building a Server with FreeBSD7" covers simply everything that anyone needs to know to get the service up and running. An essential read for any open source fan who needs a server, and for community library computer collections.
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