The Complete Freebsd - Softcover

Greg Lehey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1571761594 ISBN 13: 9781571761590

Publisher: Walnut Creek, 1996

Synopsis

This robust open operating system is ideal for both novices and professionals and comes with full technical support. The book gives detailed descriptions of the installation process and shows how to share disks between FreeBSD and other operating systems. Readers will learn about rebuilding the kernel and creating a system that can alternately run UNIX and Windows.

About this title

About the Author

Greg Lehey is an independent computer consultant specializing in UNIX. Born in Australia, he was educated in Malaysia and England before studying chemistry in Germany and chemical engineering in England. He has spent his professional career in Germany, where he worked for computer manufacturers such as Univac and Tandem, the German space research agency, nameless software houses, and a large user before deciding to work for himself. In the course of over 20 years in the industry he has performed most jobs you can think of, ranging from kernel support to product marketing, systems programming to operating, processing satellite data to programming gasoline pumps. About the only thing he hasn't done is write commercial software. He is currently engaged in the production of CD-ROMs of ported free software, and this book is one result of his experience in this area. He is available for short-term contracts and can be reached by mail at grog@lemis.de.

Review

"Naturally, such a long-standing and mature OS requires an equally long-standing and mature book to cover its workings, and FreeBSD fans are blessed to have The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey." - Paul Hudson, Linux Format, October 2003

Edition details

• Publisher: Walnut Creek
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1571761594
• ISBN 13: 9781571761590
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 817