This directory contains draft files for the upcoming fourth edition of ``The Complete FreeBSD''. This is not freely available information. You should not be here unless you are a reviewer.
If you are a reviewer, please:
use the texts only for review purposes. Assuming reasonable review feedback, you'll get a free copy of the book on publication, so there's no need to keep the drafts unless you're an incurable packrat.
review! The chapters you should be looking at are shown as ``review draft'' in the status files included in this directory. I prefer feedback as comments in the .txt files.
If you are not a reviewer, please contact me and let me know that the cover has been broken. You, too, can be a reviewer! All you have to do is to contact me and promise to respect the conditions shown above.
Review draft: I've worked on it, and I think it's good enough to look at now. The text may not be properly laid out yet (expect widows and orphans, maybe partial pages not intentionally left blank, and missing cross-references to other chapters), but the content should be correct. Complain if it isn't. Don't worry about the missing cross-references: I'll fix them at the very end. The formatter spits out error messages, so I won't miss one.
Some of the chapters were marked ``review draft'' while the book was still targetted at 4.x. They may need substantial changes for 5.x. If you see any such discrepancy, check the modification date of the chapter: if it's before, say, September 2002, don't worry too much.
Final draft: It's been reviewed, I've applied comments by the reviewers, and I think it's ready to print. With the exception of some small format issues, it should look correct. The format issues relate to some bugs in my build environment which cause comments to get indented incorrectly. They'll be gone in the final book.
4th edition: It's gone to print.
> Your mileage may vary. During the review phase of an earlier edition of this > book, one of the reviewers stated that he was very happy with his machine, > which has a 486-33 processor, 16 MB main memory, and 1 MB memory on his > display board. He said that it ran a lot faster than his Pentium 100 at work, > which ran Microsoft. The moral: if your hardware doesn't measure up to the > recommended specification, don't be discouraged. Try it out anyway. I think you should add a paragraph stating that minimum system requirements are very dependent *what* work you want to do.
When sending feedback, please refer to the chapter title, not the chapter number: the latter may change between the time you review the chapter and the time I look at the review. Also, page numbers don't help very much, since they keep changing. Context is better.
One thing that makes it very difficult is badly wrapped text, such as described at Internet mail: formats. If you have to use an MUA which performs this kind of mutilation, it would be better to look for an alternative way to supply feedback.
Chapter 1 (introduction) in PDF format
Chapter 1 (introduction) in ASCII
Chapter 2 (concepts) in PDF format
Chapter 2 (concepts) in ASCII
Chapter 3 (quickinstall) in PDF format
Chapter 3 (quickinstall) in ASCII
Chapter 4 (shareinstall) in PDF format
Chapter 4 (shareinstall) in ASCII
Chapter 5 (install) in PDF format
Chapter 5 (install) in ASCII
Chapter 6 (postinstall) in PDF format
Chapter 6 (postinstall) in ASCII
Chapter 7 (unixref) in PDF format
Chapter 7 (unixref) in ASCII
Chapter 8 (unixadmin) in PDF format
Chapter 8 (unixadmin) in ASCII
Chapter 9 (ports) in PDF format
Chapter 9 (ports) in ASCII
Chapter 10 (filesys) in PDF format
Chapter 10 (filesys) in ASCII
Chapter 11 (disks) in PDF format
Chapter 11 (disks) in ASCII
Chapter 12 (vinum) in PDF format
Chapter 12 (vinum) in ASCII
Chapter 13 (burncd) in PDF format
Chapter 13 (burncd) in ASCII
Chapter 14 (tapes) in PDF format
Chapter 14 (tapes) in ASCII
Chapter 15 (printers) in PDF format
Chapter 15 (printers) in ASCII
Chapter 16 (netintro) in PDF format
Chapter 16 (netintro) in ASCII
Chapter 17 (netsetup) in PDF format
Chapter 17 (netsetup) in ASCII
Chapter 18 (isp) in PDF format
Chapter 18 (isp) in ASCII
Chapter 19 (modems) in PDF format
Chapter 19 (modems) in ASCII
Chapter 20 (ppp) in PDF format
Chapter 20 (ppp) in ASCII
Chapter 21 (dns) in PDF format
Chapter 21 (dns) in ASCII
Chapter 22 (firewall) in PDF format
Chapter 22 (firewall) in ASCII
Chapter 23 (netdebug) in PDF format
Chapter 23 (netdebug) in ASCII
Chapter 24 (netclient) in PDF format
Chapter 24 (netclient) in ASCII
Chapter 25 (netserver) in PDF format
Chapter 25 (netserver) in ASCII
Chapter 26 (mua) in PDF format
Chapter 26 (mua) in ASCII
Chapter 27 (mta) in PDF format
Chapter 27 (mta) in ASCII
Chapter 28 (xtheory) in PDF format
Chapter 28 (xtheory) in ASCII
Chapter 29 (starting) in PDF format
Chapter 29 (starting) in ASCII
Chapter 30 (configfiles) in PDF format
Chapter 30 (configfiles) in ASCII
Chapter 31 (current) in PDF format
Chapter 31 (current) in ASCII
Chapter 32 (upgrading) in PDF format
Chapter 32 (upgrading) in ASCII
Chapter 33 (building) in PDF format
Chapter 33 (building) in ASCII