Spotted in the wild at a church rummage sale today! Complete with a section on using ed
Another #Unix book. Need to keep an eye out for greybeards roaming around.
@derickflorian I guess this is as close to me being a greybeard. It was one of the first two #Unix/Unix-like books that I got. The other was for #Solaris administration. #BSD #FreeBSD
@qlp that is really cool. Everything is online these days so I didn’t buy them but it’s nice to see the history and that most of the commands would still work today.
@derickflorian I got them because it was still the dialup days and downloading and installing FreeBSD was pretty darn slow. I helped review and suggest edits for the 4th Edition of The Complete FreeBSD before it was published and got a copy in return.
I try to find places that sell both physical and e-book versions as a bundle (like No Starch) so I can load the EPUB file wherever and still have a physical copy for another backup.
@derickflorian Yeah, it is nice to be able to search things really quickly, thanks to search engines and via other communities. It's a nice step up from the days of IRC chats and trudging through mailing list archives.