Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 13:23:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-users@freebsd-uk.eu.org Subject: Re: Porting Unix Software Message-ID: <19991218132335.D1108@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991217231212.andrew@ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.991217231212.andrew@ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Friday, 17 December 1999 at 23:12:12 -0000, Andrew Boothman wrote: > > I've been asked if there is any books that I'd like for Christmas, > and after a look around Amazon, I wondered if any one has any > experience with the O'Reilly book "Porting Unix Software" by our > very own Greg Lehey. > > The date of publication is June 1995, so I wonder if it still has > any worthwhile relevence to porting Applications to FreeBSD today. > > Any opinions would be appricated, especially Greg's! :-) I suppose that if I were to write a second edition, I'd change a number of things, but they'd mainly be in the area of "how do I get the sources?". There isn't much mention of FreeBSD in there (none of the Ports Collection, which I didn't know when I wrote the book), nor very much of Linux. In a new edition I'd give them more time. And, of course, the operating systems have changed somewhat since then. On the other hand, there's a lot of solid background in the book that you won't find anywhere else, and I refer to it myself quite a bit. Looking round at the mess on my table, I see about 10 books, including PUS. Greg -- 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-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19991218132335.D1108>