Comments on: pfSense book now available for purchase!

By: Renzo Goia

Renzo Goia — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:47:44 +0000

I just bought the book.
Thanks for the very usefull project.
Only one suggestion, please make the book also in electronic format.

Regards

By: Lee

Lee — Sun, 05 May 2013 19:23:20 +0000

Steve, this is an open project, there is no secret knowledge contained in the book. All the information required can be obtained for free. What is not free, for anyone, is the incredible amount of time, skill, and effort in order to collect and synthesize the information necessary for a successful implemention. What you are paying for with the book is your time and effort. It is a testament to the skill of the pfSense developers that they have made a highly complex and advanced piece of software appear so simple to the end user.

By: J Signed

J Signed — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:05:20 +0000

When is your new book going to be ready and will it be available in an electronic format? I’d pay the same for the ebook as the physical book because the ebook is more useful to me. For example with an ebook I can search the entire text for a word or phrase in literally a second. Try doing that with paper. I also get the point about making a living and the ebook would put a few extra dollars in your pocket.

Others will disagree with me I’m sure, but nothing in this world is free, not even open source code.

Cheers

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 03:24:25 +0000

No idea what you’re talking about Steve. Yes the most authoritative and reliable source of info is in this book and the new one we’re working on. That can be said of countless open source projects. We also have a ton of reliable info on doc.pfsense.org, so this is far from the only source of reliable info. We do tend to withhold all the advanced info, because 6 people make a full time living on the project and we have to have a way to make payroll. Selling information is part of that. Anyone who needs the kind of info we don’t make publicly available can very easily justify the minuscule cost.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:43:13 +0000

open source projects for which the *only* reliable source of information is books are well down the totem pole

By: Mike Robinson

Mike Robinson — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:23:52 +0000

Bought the book about a year ago and I have to say that though it was already a bit dated, it was still quite easy to figure out the changes. I am getting ready to update to a newer version at the end of this year and was wondering if we were going to see the V2.1 by then?

Thanks Chris and Jim for a wonderful book. I know the software is advancing faster then you could possiblly print updated material and by no means am i suggesting that you slow down it’s development. Keep up the hard work.

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Mon, 14 May 2012 01:46:25 +0000

“pfSense User” – that’s precisely what our book, the one linked here, does. It seems from your description maybe you’re referring to the “pfSense Cookbook” book, which isn’t written by any contributors to the project, and isn’t helpful as it does exactly what you said. The book linked here, the official book, provides in depth explanations of everything it covers, there are no sections that “preset a setting and state the obvious.”

By: pfSense User

pfSense User — Mon, 14 May 2012 01:09:34 +0000

Please, write a proper book giving the reasons for the settings, not just presetting a setting and stating the obvious…. Give bacground details as to the choices and why each choice… in a clear manner.

By: Ron Shir

Ron Shir — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:30:21 +0000

We’re the Kindle issues straightened out? I’d much rather buy the Kindle edition. Thanks for a great product and docs!

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:49:05 +0000

The next book will be a 2.1 book, and it’s a bit out still. The current book covers most things in 2.0 and is the only good source of general info for 2.0 aside from what’s on doc.pfsense.org.