Comments on: pfSense Book Naming Contest

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:54:32 +0000

I’ll have an update posted when I have a pretty good idea when it’ll be finished. My early time table was too optimistic with 1.2.1, 1.3 and everything else going on of late. July blew by without much progress when I expected to make significant progress.

I’m hopeful August will allow more time for writing. I have much of it together, but need to spend a lot of time filling in some gaps and clarifying some things.

By: Alex M.

Alex M. — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:31:04 +0000

I’d go with “The Definitive Guide to pfSense” as well. It sounds professional. It’s hard to be taken seriously when you’re reading a book called ‘Firewalls for Nimrods’ or a similar title. Also, people may point to this book when making a claim for the viability of pfSense in the work place. Do you really want to mention a book with a silly name to your manager or co-worker?

Additionally, you may want to include a subtitle that describes pfSense as an open source, enterprise quality firewall. So for instance I’d go with something like:

The Definitive Guide to pfSense: an enterprise, open source firewall

Incidentally, could you post an update about the book’s progress? I’m eagerly awaiting it’s release.

By: Dilan Kalpa

Dilan Kalpa — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:01:13 +0000

I wud luv to get a copy of this book soon. I ve done lot with pfsense and wanna see every possibility of pfsense

By: Belthazar

Belthazar — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:15:32 +0000

Morning Chris

Great news thank you.
All of the best.

Regards,

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:03:59 +0000

There will be an electronic version available for purchase.

Publication date still unknown, unfortunately with the 1.2.1 and 1.3 snapshot releases recently I’ve been swamped with other things and it hasn’t progressed as much as I would have liked. I’m still committed to getting it out as quickly as possible, but won’t sacrifice quality for speed. I’ll put up a new blog post when I have more info on timelines.

By: Wes

Wes — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:30:52 +0000

Can you give us any further details as to final publication date?

Wes

By: Belthazar

Belthazar — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:26:18 +0000

Hi Chris

Will the book only be available in hard copy or will there be an electronic version available for purchase & download?

Regards,

Belthazar

By: Wes

Wes — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:56:07 +0000

While there are many great suggestions here, I like your original title the best. “The Definitive Guide to pfSense” is short, sweet, and to the point.

By: Seth Alberti

Seth Alberti — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:28:27 +0000

I am looking forward to the release of this book!

pfSense – All in One Open Source Firewall Solution – Users Guide

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:01:55 +0000

I really like “Common pfSense”

But a subtitle like – “Enterprise firewall/router on a small business budget.”

I think it needs a title that grabs the attention of people who are buying $25,000 dollar routers, and get them to use pfSense, and maybe donate some of that saved money to the project.