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Amit Singh wrote the book you are referring to. But it is now long out of date. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321278542/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product

Amit Singh wrote the book you are referring to. But it is now long out of date. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321278542/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321278542/ I believe the book the OP is referring to in their post is effectively newer editions of Amit's book, but I could be wrong.

LucidLynx 5y ago
Hi :) The books I was refering to are from Jonathan Levin, who finished to work (and publish) the three different volumes two years ago. I live in Europe now so it is not possible for me to order them via Amazon (the only physical distributor from what I understood), and ordering them directly from another distributor requires 50$ per each book (so, 125$ in total for one volume). I am not a fan or user of ebooks for this case I would love to have this solution :)
- GekkePrutser 5y ago
  Wow indeed they look good but they are crazy expensive especially when ordered in Europe. $375 for all 3. If I'd get them it would be mainly just as a matter of interest but I couldn't warrant that kind of expense. I bought the Amit Singh book and used it a couple of times but it was only $50 for the whole thing. I'd actually prefer ebooks but they don't seem to be available like that at all.
  - LucidLynx 5y ago
    Indeed, they are crazy expensive... Will begin with Absolute FreeBSD and take a look at recent forum / blog posts for now. Maybe I will send an email to the author, asking if he plans to release the ebooks (who knows)...
    - GekkePrutser 5y ago
      FreeBSD also has an excellent handbook (though it's not kept up to date as much as it should be). I use it as my daily driver OS since Apple locked things down too much for me and am very happy with it. The thing I like the most is that it's one OS that does things one way, not like the fragmentation of Linux where every distro is different. But I use every OS pretty much every day :) I like it that way. But I wasn't aware of Absolute FreeBSD very much (I probably have heard of it before as the cover looks familiar). Will definitely get it, thanks for the tip!
      - LucidLynx 5y ago
        FreeBSD is a great OS! I don't like so much Linux distributions - way too much fragmented too, and I just want something that "just works" and not "barely works". Also, coming from *BSD, Linux is too messy for me... just my opinion :) I used FreeBSD on a Thinkpad when I was in college but switched to mac as I became annoyed by Thinkpad and wanted a MacBook Air like computer...

LucidLynx 5y ago

Hi :) The books I was refering to are from Jonathan Levin, who finished to work (and publish) the three different volumes two years ago. I live in Europe now so it is not possible for me to order them via Amazon (the only physical distributor from what I understood), and ordering them directly from another distributor requires 50$ per each book (so, 125$ in total for one volume). I am not a fan or user of ebooks for this case I would love to have this solution :)

GekkePrutser 5y ago
Wow indeed they look good but they are crazy expensive especially when ordered in Europe. $375 for all 3. If I'd get them it would be mainly just as a matter of interest but I couldn't warrant that kind of expense. I bought the Amit Singh book and used it a couple of times but it was only $50 for the whole thing. I'd actually prefer ebooks but they don't seem to be available like that at all.
- LucidLynx 5y ago
  Indeed, they are crazy expensive... Will begin with Absolute FreeBSD and take a look at recent forum / blog posts for now. Maybe I will send an email to the author, asking if he plans to release the ebooks (who knows)...
  - GekkePrutser 5y ago
    FreeBSD also has an excellent handbook (though it's not kept up to date as much as it should be). I use it as my daily driver OS since Apple locked things down too much for me and am very happy with it. The thing I like the most is that it's one OS that does things one way, not like the fragmentation of Linux where every distro is different. But I use every OS pretty much every day :) I like it that way. But I wasn't aware of Absolute FreeBSD very much (I probably have heard of it before as the cover looks familiar). Will definitely get it, thanks for the tip!
    - LucidLynx 5y ago
      FreeBSD is a great OS! I don't like so much Linux distributions - way too much fragmented too, and I just want something that "just works" and not "barely works". Also, coming from *BSD, Linux is too messy for me... just my opinion :) I used FreeBSD on a Thinkpad when I was in college but switched to mac as I became annoyed by Thinkpad and wanted a MacBook Air like computer...