Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 08:48:00 +1300 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Stephen Roome <steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Orielly book Message-ID: <19991017084800.61017@mojave.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPX.4.10.9910151126230.12701-100000@mothra.bri.hp.com>; from Stephen Roome on Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 11:39:54AM %2B0100 References: <19991015150724.07602@mojave.lemis.com> <Pine.HPX.4.10.9910151126230.12701-100000@mothra.bri.hp.com>
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On Friday, 15 October 1999 at 11:39:54 +0100, 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. Kirk McKusick is working on a FreeBSD internals book for AW. It'll be an adaptation of "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System", and I can guess what the title will be. > I think the focus on O'Reilly follows the "O'Reilly book on Internet > Porn" joke picture that someone sent me. I haven't seen this one. >> 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. > > I suppose to any publisher this counts as a new genre, and large > companies (and therefore any serious publishing house) rarely break > new ground. [IVMHO it's mainly the small companies that do this.] Well, I would have thought that O'Reilly was pretty well used to this area. I was surprised that they miscalculated. Maybe it's because they're not a small company any more. 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
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