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The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide, Second Edition, offers the most systematic and authoritative coverage of Samba's advanced features and capabilities. It has been extensively updated to reflect major improvements in the Samba-3.0 seri

Samba-3 by Example provides useful, thoroughly documented explanations for all aspects of a Samba deployment. They're the same kind of patient answers I got when my dad taught me how to ride a bike without training wheels. Now, if only dad knew act

This book is intended to help recent Switchers learn more about the Mac operating system, to expose them to the best free applications, to extend their productivity and to assist them with day-to-day procedures by revealing useful tips and tricks f

This book aims to provide beginners with an introduction to programming Mac OS X with Cocoa, using Xcode, the free developer tools provided with the operating system. Some knowledge of another programming language, preferably C, is assumed. The main

This primer covers everything you will need to know in order to start contributing to the FreeBSD Documentation Project, from the tools and software you will be using (both mandatory and recommended) to the philosophy behind the Documentation Proje

Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition is your complete guide to FreeBSD, written by FreeBSD committer Michael W. Lucas. Lucas considers this completely revised and rewritten second edition of his landmark work to be his best work ever; a true product of hi

This book is intended as a resource to system programming on BSDs. The reader should be familiar with basic programming in C or C++. The reader does not need to have system administration knowledge. Although this book focuses on FreeBSD, many of th

This book describes the design and implementation of the BSD operating system - previously known as the Berkeley version of UNIX. Today, BSD is found in nearly every variant of UNIX, and is widely used for Internet services and firewalls, timeshari

The FreeBSD Handbook is the definitive FreeBSD tutorial and reference. This revised third edition has been expanded into a two Volume set filled with updated information on the latest FreeBSD technologies. This first volume provides step by step in

The Complete FreeBSD is an eminently practical guidebook that explains not only how to get a computer up and running with the FreeBSD operating system, but also how to turn it into a highly functional and secure server that can host large numbers o