From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 15 3:28: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scotty.masternet.it (scotty.masternet.it [194.184.65.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8403E14FE1 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 03:27:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Received: from suzy (modem15.masternet.it [194.184.65.25]) by scotty.masternet.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA09471; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 12:27:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991015120747.00b7d960@194.184.65.4> X-Sender: gmarco@scotty.masternet.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 12:17:44 +0200 To: Greg Lehey From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: Re: Orielly book Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19991015150724.07602@mojave.lemis.com> References: <199910141632.MAA53620@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 15/10/99, Greg Lehey wrote: >The real problem with O'Reilly is that they had a disaster with the >4.4BSD manuals, and it took a long time for them to realise that this >wasn't BSD's fault. > > > Bearing in mind they'll want to make some money on it, it's probably > > fair, however it would be in FreeBSD's interests to probably put > > this high priority. > >OK, for the sake of discussion, which publisher do you people prefer? >Addison Wesley or O'Reilly? I'm also discussing a book with AW, and I >could do with some input. I really prefer O'Reilly. I own a lot of them, including obviusly "Porting UNIX Software" by a misknown australian authour :-) and less obviusly the 4.4BSD manuals, which I have to agree I don't like so much as the other books from them.... I own only three books from AW (The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD, The C++ Programming language by Stroustrup and TCL and the Tk Toolkit by Ousterhout) against about 30 of O'Reilly... I buy all my book from Bookpool and I have to say they are great and efficient (4 days from there to here :-) Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.giovannelli.it/~gmarco http://www2.masternet.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message