From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 16 0:49:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from deepblue.big-blue.net (deepblue.big-blue.net [208.237.121.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5401114D11 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 00:49:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@big-blue.net) Received: from big-blue.net (localhost.big-blue.net [127.0.0.1]) by deepblue.big-blue.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA05243; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 03:45:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alex@big-blue.net) Message-ID: <38082D29.6364AE1C@big-blue.net> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 03:45:45 -0400 From: Alex V P X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: elazich@AlaskaAir.com Cc: grog@lemis.com, steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com, mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Orielly book References: <199910141632.MAA53620@blackhelicopters.org> <19991015150724.07602@mojave.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG elazich@AlaskaAir.com wrote: > 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 i like AW, ora is the best my opinion alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message