There was a vibrant thread on the Atlanta ColdFusion User Group community mailing list at the end of the week. I read through it this morning while compiling the Java 2 1.4.2 SDK on my FreeBSD server. Afterward, I couldn’t help but post a few observations. Here is a copy of my post:
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I took some time to look through Absolute BSD by Michael Lucas, available from No-Starch Press this morning at Barnes & Noble, and had to bring it home. For those of you either new to running FreeBSD or still not that comfortable with administering your FreeBSD servers, this book is for you.

In a moment of tragic fortune, my current FreeBSD installation got trashed this afternoon. So, I had to reinstall this evening. I am so glad that I had this book on hand. The section on drive partitioning is typical of the things I am loving about this book; it starts on page 10 of my copy. So many people dance around the topic of partitioning without committing to one approach or the other. Michael gives an excellent explanation of how to partition your disk subsystem and why he recommends certain choices, openly acknowledging that he knows that this will irritate the other half of the community who prefer another approach.

I have been looking for a resource to help me get my file, print, and DNS services in order, and this book looks like it will be a wonderful companion for those tasks.

So I received a response on my queries concerning the Debian Installer PowerPC bug reports. You can read the whole thing here, but the key part of my reply from Sven Luther that grabbed me was this:

“Because the ones who care about powerpc are busy right now ? I think it
is exam time for some of them, or they are busy with other stuff. I
myself don’t have a pmac, so there is not much i can do, and i think
gaudenz has gone to work on discovery mostly. Don’t know about the
others.

Anyway, i have no idea about the keyboard problem you reported, but
this kernel issue, it should not be problematic. Does choosing unstable
instead of testing make a change here ?”

Well, I thought about that, and replied to Sven:
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Wow. I got back from out of town hoping to see that my latest Debian Installer bug reports (234681 and 235044) had been addressed, but no such luck. It’s kind of uncharacteristic. The new installer is a hot project, and those guys are usually on top of things. I am not sure what’s up, the push for the March 15th release seems so important…