How outdated is the book?

[drulavigne]

No problem :-) Also, most of the content in the epub is also written by me, with contributions from the community.

[yonnie]

If this is the thread on the pdf handbook, (book available from the documentation tab/menu button on main website).
I would like to ask why the many links presented from within the handbook don't include a written address? The links don't work using pdf viewer and without an address of where the link is wanting to go to it is not possible to follow the extra information the non-working links would cover. Perhaps I need to install an un-mentioned additional package to get these links to work?

So far, very impressed with how well the book is written and the amount of work it took to do this in such detail.

[drulavigne]

We could add footnotes in the next PDF version to spell out the links. Is there an option in PDF viewer to set the browser so that you can open the links? How did you install PDF viewer?

[sweet skunk]

Hi dru,
I don't mean to jump a thread but here is my post on epdfview & firefox.
http://forums.pcbsd.org/showthread.php?t=16081

[Tigersharke]

@yonnie

A footnote framework has been added to the handbook wiki in preparation for the v9.1 handbook published in pdf and other formats. All external links shall have this feature enabled which should satisfy the issue of 'written address' and aid in the publishing process.

[rich4421972]

I know this is a rather old thread, but I just wanted to add that I often use the regular BSD manuals to help me understand what I am doing in PC-BSD. In my opinion, the most important (and helpful) books on the subject are Michael Lucas' Absolute FreeBSD and Absolute OpenBSD . These are great books by No Starch Press and you can scribble in the current (or most favorite) commands in the margin and soon you will have a "current" book on BSD (that also applies to much of PC-BSD).

I think "current" is relative. I still get great help from Marshal McKusik's The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System.

To me, the importance of a conceptual understanding can't be beat. Thus the Lucas books are well-written, friendly and helpful as is Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD. I tend to use the command line for everything, anyway. Just my opinion. Lucas seems to advocate compiling packages rather than installing binaries and that is what he teaches. He also seems to prefer compiling his updates (rather than using a binary update method like freebsd-update)