From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 15 4:46:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from begemot.org (negara.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.248.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C75A15371 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 04:45:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from mojave.lemis.com (modem16.slip.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.97.115]) by begemot.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA07505; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 21:58:38 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by mojave.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.6.12) id PAA00338; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:07:24 +1300 (NZDT) Message-ID: <19991015150724.07602@mojave.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:07:24 +1300 From: Greg Lehey To: Stephen Roome , Michael Lucas Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Orielly book References: <199910141632.MAA53620@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Stephen Roome on Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 05:47:55PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 14 October 1999 at 17:47:55 +0100, Stephen Roome wrote: > On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Michael Lucas wrote: >> I sent them a proposal. They bounced it. >> >> I get the impression that they'd need someone who can write >> higher-level stuff. A FreeBSD Newbus Device Drivers book would almost >> certainly succeed. A FreeBSD Generic Servers book won't. >> >> Just IMHO, reading between various lines. > > 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. 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. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message