From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 16 12:39:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.pit.adelphia.net (alpha.pit.adelphia.net [24.48.44.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB72915324 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 12:39:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from evstiounin@adelphia.net) Received: from evstiouninadelphia (surf17-204.pit.adelphia.net [24.48.53.204]) by alpha.pit.adelphia.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id PAA02904; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 15:37:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000201bf180e$83efc1c0$cc353018@evstiouninadelphia.net.pit.adelphia.net> From: "Mikhail Evstiounin" To: "Greg Lehey" , "Stephen Roome" , "Michael Lucas" Cc: Subject: Re: Orielly book Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 15:11:48 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Personally, If I need a full and accurate description how to do something then I'll go for OR. If I need more conceptual and theoretical knowledge - why that is done this way, conceptual design, more abstract ideas, more theretical stuff - then I'll go for AW or PH. -----Original Message----- From: Greg Lehey To: Stephen Roome ; Michael Lucas Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Friday, October 15, 1999 5:09 AM Subject: Re: Orielly book >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