Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 06:52:39 -0400 From: "Stephen A. Derdau" <sderdau@ne.mediaone.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Orielly book Message-ID: <38070777.823B7604@ne.mediaone.net> References: <Pine.HPX.4.10.9910151126230.12701-100000@mothra.bri.hp.com>
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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.
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