From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 15 3:51:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls05.mediaone.net (ne.mediaone.net [24.128.1.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 884E515146 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 03:51:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sderdau@ne.mediaone.net) Received: from ne.mediaone.net (sderdau.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.2.59]) by chmls05.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA08186 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 06:51:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <38070777.823B7604@ne.mediaone.net> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 06:52:39 -0400 From: "Stephen A. Derdau" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Orielly book References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stephen Roome wrote: > > Firstly, I must say that none of this was because I would personally like an > O'Reilly (or anyone else) book on FreeBSD. I don't think I currently need one, > although an up to date book about how the kernel works (that I can easily > obtain in the UK) would be nice. > > [I'd probably buy any book anyway - just for bookshelf usage.] > > (Secondly, sorry for the length of this email, I'm better with C than english - > and that's not saying much.) > > On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > AFAIK the orielly books are fairly technical generally, maybe for Linux they > > > can afford to produce a couple of simple "here's a getting started guide" type > > > books, but probably not for FreeBSD. > > > > Well, I'm an O'Reilly author ("Porting UNIX Software"), and I > > disagree. I'd say that, for example, Addison-Wesley are more > > technical. > > Okay, from the point of view of being a student at university, most of the > books I remember reading (as mandatory course books) were Addison Wesley or > Prentice Hall (I think that's right for the second one - but these could have > been for Physics or math modules). > > However the only books I can honestly say I've bought since University were > some of the O'Reilly X11 books and I almost bought the perl book, until I > realised that the binary docs were good enough. > > Personally I prefer online documentation, but O'Reilly seem to have more of a > reputation for technical books in the (perhaps small) circles I move. Which is > why I mentioned O'Reilly (and because of the article/letter on the web from Tim > O.) > > I think the focus on O'Reilly follows the "O'Reilly book on Internet Porn" joke > picture that someone sent me. They do, whether accurate or not, have a > reputation amongst some people (me included) for being those folks who write > (all?) the computer books. > > > The real problem with O'Reilly is that they had a disaster with the > > 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. > One of the best technical books that I read and thought was well written was from McGraw-Hill After I read this tech book, the title escapes me. I believe it was on networks or fast ethernet. I said to myself that was a very well written book. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message