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This is a recent (May 1997) publication from Tatsumi Hosokawa and
others. Among computer books, it is a top-seller in Japan and
exceeded the sales of Bill Gates' "The Road Ahead" when published
(it was #2, this book was #1). |
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(Japanese FreeBSD book with 2.0.5, titled "FreeBSD: Fun and easy
Installation") |
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(Japanese FreeBSD book with 2.0.5, titled "FreeBSD Introductory
Kit") |
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This is BSDi's "The Complete FreeBSD" with installation
guide, manual pages and installation CDs inside. |
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This book was recently published (early 1997) in Taiwan. Its title
is "FreeBSD: introduction and applications" and the author is
Jian-Da Li. |
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This is the "Getting Started with FreeBSD" from Fuki-Shuppan.
Other than the standard installation guide and Japanese environment,
it emphasizes system administration and low-level information (such
as the boot process, etc.) FreeBSD-2.2.2R and XFree86-3.2 on CDROM.
264 pages, 3,400 yen. |
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The "Personal Unix Starter Kit - FreeBSD" from ASCII. Includes
history of Unix, a guide to build a Japanese documentation
processing system and how to create ports. 2.1.7.1R and XFree86-3.2
in CDROM. 384 pages, 3,000 yen. |
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BSD mit Methode, M. Schulze, B. Roehrig, M. Hoelzer und andere,
C&L Computer und Literatur Verlag, 1998, 850 pages. 2 CDROMs,
FreeBSD 2.2.6, NetBSD 1.2.1 and 1.3.2, OpenBSD 2.2 and 2.3. DM
98,-. |
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This is the "FreeBSD Install and utilization manual" from Mainichi
Communications. General introduction to FreeBSD from installation
to utilization with troubleshooting under the supervision of the
user group in Japan. 2.2.7-RELEASE FreeBSD(98)2.2.7-Rev01 PAO and
distfiles in CDROM. 472 pages, 3,600yen. |
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The "FreeBSD User's Reference Manual" from Mainichi
Communications, under the supervision of "jpman project", the manual
translation project by the user group in Japan. Japanese edition of
the section 1 of the FreeBSD manual. 2.2.7-RELEASE
FreeBSD(98)2.2.7-Rev01 and PAO in CDROM. 1,040 pages, 3,800yen. |
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The "FreeBSD System Administrator's Manual" from Mainichi
Communications, under the supervision of "jpman project", the manual
translation project by the user group in Japan. Japanese edition of
the section 5 and 8 of the FreeBSD manual. 756 pages, 3,300yen.
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This is "About FreeBSD" from Youngjin.com. It is first FreeBSD
book in Korea, and covers several topics from installation to
Korean environment. 3.5.1-RELEASE/PAO and 4.1-RELEASE in
3 CDROMs. 788 pages, 26,000 won. |
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Onno W Purbo, Dodi Maryanto, Syahrial Hubbany, Widjil Widodo:
Building Internet Server with
FreeBSD (in Indonesia Language), published
by Elex Media Komputindo,
2000.
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The FreeBSD Handbook 1st Edition is a comprehensive FreeBSD
Tutorial and reference. It covers installation, day-to-day use
of FreeBSD, and much more.
April 2000, BSDi. ISBN 1-57176-241-8
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The Complete FreeBSD with CDs, 3rd Ed, FreeBSD 4.2.
Everything you ever wanted to know about how to get
your computer up and running FreeBSD. Includes 4 CDs
containing the FreeBSD operating system!
Released: November 2000 ISBN: 1-57176-246-9
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The FreeBSD Handbook 2nd Edition is a comprehensive FreeBSD
Tutorial and reference. It covers installation, day-to-day use
of FreeBSD, and much more.
November 2001, Wind River Systems. ISBN 1-57176-303-1
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This is InfoMagic's BSDisc, containing FreeBSD 2.0 and NetBSD 1.0
on a single CD. This is the only example I have which had cover
art. |
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This is the original 4.4 BSD Lite2 release from UC Berkeley, the
core technology behind much of FreeBSD. |
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The first of Laser5's "BSD" series. Contains FreeBSD-2.0.5R,
NetBSD-1.0, XFree86-3.1.1 and FreeBSD(98) kernel. |
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The second of Laser5's "BSD" series. From this version, the CDs
come in a standard jewel box. Contains FreeBSD-2.1R, NetBSD-1.1,
XFree86-3.1.2 and 3.1.2A, and FreeBSD(98) kernel (2.0.5). |
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This is the Laser5 Japanese edition of the FreeBSD CDROM. It is a
4 CD set. |
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This is the only FreeBSD CD Pacific Hitech produced before merging
their product line with that of Walnut Creek CDROM. PHT now also
produces the FreeBSD/J (Japanese) CD product. |
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This is the cover disc from the Korean magazine. Note the creative cover art! The
CD contains the FreeBSD 2.2.1 release with some local
additions. |
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This is it - the very first FreeBSD CD published! Both the
FreeBSD Project and Walnut Creek CDROM were fairly young back then,
and you'll probably have little difficulty in spotting the
differences in production quality between then and now.
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This was the second FreeBSD CD published by Walnut Creek CDROM and
also the very last on the 1.x branch (ref USL/Novell lawsuit and
settlement). The next release, FreeBSD 1.1.5, was only available on
the net.
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This unusual CD is something of a collector's item now given that
almost all existing examples were systematically tracked down and
destroyed. An artwork mishap has this CD dated for the wrong year,
and on the spine "January" is also misspelled as "Jaunary", just to
increase the embarrassment factor. Ah, the perils of turning in
one's artwork just hours before leaving for a trade show.
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This is the fixed-up version of the FreeBSD 2.0 CD. Note that the
color scheme has even been changed in the corrected version,
something unusual for a fixup and perhaps done to distance it from
the earlier mistake. |
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The FreeBSD 2.0.5 release CD. This was the first CD to feature
Tatsumi Hosokawa's daemon artwork. |
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The FreeBSD 2.1 release CD. This was the first CD release on the
2.1 branch (the last being 2.1.7). |
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The FreeBSD 2.1.5 release CD. |
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The FreeBSD 2.1.6 release CD. |
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The Japanese version of 2.1.6. This was the first and last
Japanese localized version published by WC, responsibility for that
product then transitioning to a team led by Tatsumi Hosokawa and
sponsored by Pacific Hitech and Laser5.
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The FreeBSD 2.1.7 release CD. Also the last CD released on the
2.1.x branch. Done primarily as a security fixup for 2.1.6 |
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An early release SNAPshot of 2.2 (done before 2.2.1 was
released). |
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The FreeBSD 2.2.1 release CD. This was the first CD on the 2.2
branch. |
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The FreeBSD 2.2.2 release CD. |
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The FreeBSD 3.0 snapshot CD. |
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The FreeBSD mailing list and newsgroup archives, turned into HTML
and semi-indexed by thread. This product ran for 2 releases and
then stopped with a thud once it became obvious that there was
simply too much data to deal with on one CD. Perhaps when DVD
becomes more popular...
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FreeBSD Toolkit: Six disc set of resources to make your
FreeBSD experience more enriching.
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FreeBSD Alpha 4.2 - The full version of the DEC Alpha 64-bit
UNIX operating system.
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FreeBSD 4.2: The full version of the PC 32-bit UNIX operating system.
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FreeBSD 4.2 CD-ROM. Lehmanns CD-ROM Edition.
January 2001, 4 CD-ROMs. Lehmanns Fachbuchhandlung. Germany.
ISBN 3-931253-72-4.
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FreeBSD 4.3 RELEASE CDROM.
April 2001, Wind River Systems. ISBN 1-57176-300-7.
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FreeBSD Toolkit: Six disc set of resources to make your
FreeBSD experience more enriching.
June 2001, Wind River Systems. ISBN 1-57176-301-5.
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FreeBSD 4.4 CD-ROM. Lehmanns CD-ROM Edition.
November 2001, 6 CD-ROMs in Jewelcase.
Lehmanns Fachbuchhandlung.
Germany.
ISBN 3-931253-84-8.
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FreeBSD 4.4 RELEASE CDROM. Wind River Systems. September 2001.
ISBN 1-57176-304-X.
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FreeBSD 4.5 RELEASE CDROM.
February 2002, FreeBSD Mall Inc. ISBN 1-57176-306-6.
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