Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 12:17:44 +0200 From: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Orielly book Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19991015120747.00b7d960@194.184.65.4> In-Reply-To: <19991015150724.07602@mojave.lemis.com> References: <Pine.HPX.4.10.9910141744380.21065-100000@mothra.bri.hp.com> <199910141632.MAA53620@blackhelicopters.org> <Pine.HPX.4.10.9910141744380.21065-100000@mothra.bri.hp.com>
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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
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