pfSense: The Definitive Guide – book status update
I mentioned back in July that a book on pfSense will be coming soon. At the time I had hoped it would be published and available for purchase by now, but other things have taken priority much more than I had hoped and anticipated. Now that some things are out of the way, I hope to make significant progress over the next several weeks, making it available for purchase by the end of the year.
October 5th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
sweeeeeeeet!
i hope a open version of the book
October 5th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Great. Looking forward to it.
October 5th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Parts of it will be open, enough to get up and running with a two interface configuration. For more than that, you’ll have to buy it either in a printed or electronic format. Nobody was willing to put in the very significant effort required to write this for free. It’s very important for the long term success of the project for us to be able to make money on efforts like this.
October 5th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
I hope it will be available soon. I’ll definitely have a copy! Looking forward to it!
October 6th, 2008 at 1:39 am
Couldn’t agree more with Hacktivist, hopefully it will be out within a few month’s – Since it would definitely be worth reading.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:42 am
Made some progress today, hopefully I’ll have the time to keep this up over the next few weeks. Appreciate the encouragement.
October 6th, 2008 at 2:25 am
Aaaah great news Chris!
I’m more than willing to pay for a copy of this long awaited book!
Regards,
Belthazar
October 6th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Being a newbie that has started to deploy pfsense two weeks ago scratching my head on DMZ setup, I find this news great!!!
I’ll definitely buy a copy, I don’t mind about an open version (except maybe for the possibility to eventually download errata, and contributes) this is an effort worth money.
October 6th, 2008 at 9:21 am
I will definitely be buying this book..
Will it cover “new” feature that will be in version 1.3 ?
October 6th, 2008 at 10:40 am
I really look forward to getting a copy for the office.
October 6th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Hi,
Could you maybe create a mailing list to notify us when this book has been published. It will be great to know the moment this book has been released.
I for once most certainly will purchase a copy.
Regards,
Wernher
October 6th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Very good news! We’ll purchase for sure.
October 6th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
An email will go out to our announcements list as soon as it’s available. You can subscribe by sending a blank email to announce-subscribe@pfsense.com.
October 7th, 2008 at 4:02 am
We’ll purchase for sure…. send me a mail when available….
October 7th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
I’m looking forward to your book. If possible, I hope to see a section on performance: baseline expectaions with various configurations and intermediate to advanced tweaks. As an intermediate user I greatly trust pfSense out of the box with gui choices that have been tested by the developers. Any guidance beyond this would be great.
Good luck!
October 7th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
I will also be buying the book.
I have been playing with pfsense on my Macbook via Fusion to test/look/get use to and trying out all the different options. I plan to replace our Netgear FVS318 with one( As it does VPN IPsec I have to see what the current limitations are or wait till V1.3). This will give me more options.
I am learning as I go and doing a lot of googling to help, so this book will help a lot.
Thx
October 9th, 2008 at 2:27 am
Definately will be buying that book!
October 9th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
I would love to have a printed copy with a online redemption code for a digital searchable copy (pdf) with free updates. :O)
October 9th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
That’s great news. I’m also looking forward to your book as well. I will be buying a copy (or two; for the office) as soon as it is available.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Excellent news. I will like to talk to you about translation into spanish. I am implementing a regional initiative with all our offices in latinamerica to use pfsense as main firewall.
October 16th, 2008 at 4:46 am
You can bet I’ll buy it.
October 17th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
great news. if you do publish a book, a few copies will certainly be on our bookshelves here at work. cheers!
October 17th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
I will definitely buy it.
Will be great reading during x-mas holidays and perhaps a great gift.
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Can you indicate as to what version of pfSense that this book will cover or be applicable to?
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:04 pm
It covers 1.2.1, as that will be the production version for some time.
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:27 pm
awesome….
This week I was asked by two companies for documentation on the pfSense routers I installed.
Considering the extent that I have used pfSense I could help with the book on someone else’s time clock. Email me if your interested.
October 26th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
I sure hope you do publish a book on pfSense! I really love it, have been using it for many applications, and would definently buy a copy for myself and probably a few more for some friends!
October 27th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
I thought it was already published. I have been checking my local bookstore every week. I can’t wait until this is available. Are you keeping a notification list? If so, please add me to it. I want to buy this book. I want to learn Pfsense inside and out while supporting the effort!!
October 27th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
To those who would like to be notified of the release and other important pfSense things, send a blank email to announce-subscribe@pfsense.com.
Wes – I manually subscribed you.
January 27th, 2009 at 1:42 am
any updates on this?
January 27th, 2009 at 1:48 am
Still a work in progress, but getting closer. A pre-publication copy is available to our subscribers on https://portal.pfsense.org. A lower cost subscription providing content access only will be available in the next month or so.
February 8th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Hello
How it goes ?
Estimated time to arrive ?
February 8th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
no change from my last post. I don’t have any ETA, too much other work right now unfortunately, progress continues to be slow…
March 21st, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Any progress with the book? I am looking forward to get one.
March 21st, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Roman: I have a big chunk of time available in April and this will be one of my top priorities. pfSense is my full time job starting in April, just haven’t had enough time to make progress shuffling so much work.
March 30th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
It will include Pfsense 2.0 content?
When is estimated Pfsense 2.0 Beta release?
I love this project!! Pfsense is great!!
March 30th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Mikel: It’s 1.2.x only, 2.0 is considerably different in many regards and is a number of months from a final release so subject to change further. See also:
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/When_Will_A_Release_Occur
April 11th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
I like Releases are made “when they’re ready” pilosofy.
It is Debian style!!
Yeah!!
July 22nd, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Any updates on the progress of the book? I’m looking forward to its release.
July 22nd, 2009 at 6:31 pm
We’re finishing it up right now, not sure how long the printing process will take, and getting it to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. but it won’t be much longer!
August 10th, 2009 at 6:13 am
Any news!!
I am impacient!!
August 10th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
We’re further along, wrapping up the last couple TODOs and getting it indexed. I don’t know how long it will take from here as most of that is outside our control (printing, shipping etc.) but it won’t be too long.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Shipping to belgium will cost some tax and shippingscost and it will take a long time, is it possible to buy this item in Europe?
Is there also a digital version(easier to search things)?
November 6th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
We have licensed the book for inclusion with our hardware. You can get an electronic pdf version (downloadable) from us in the Netherlands. http://www.applianceshop.eu it’s free with our OPNsense pfSense appliances.