From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 15 9:53:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aag.alaskaair.com (outbound.alaskaair.com [159.49.42.191]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF94F14FA1 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:53:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from elazich@AlaskaAir.com) Received: from OUTBOUND.alaskaair.com by aag.alaskaair.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.org [204.216.27.18]) with SMTP; 15 Oct 1999 16:56:11 UT Received: from asnasta (asnasta.alaskaair.com [159.49.42.21]) by outbound.alaskaair.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA12679; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:56:35 -0700 From: elazich@AlaskaAir.com To: grog@lemis.com Cc: steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com, mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:52:54 -0700 Subject: Re: Orielly book Message-ID: References: <199910141632.MAA53620@blackhelicopters.org> <19991015150724.07602@mojave.lemis.com> Organization: Alaska Airlines MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-ID: X-Gateway: NASTA Gate 2.0 for FirstClass(R) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nothing against AW (they publich some fine books that are on my bookshelf Stevens' series for example are invaluable) but I'd vote for O'Reilly. ORA is who I think of when my thoughts turn to where to get help on specific topics and in my mind that's what they are known for. Eli grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) writes: >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message