Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:47:47 -0400 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Sergey Lyubka <devnull@asitatech.ie> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Assembly, Kernels and Bootstraps Message-ID: <20020801124747.A13036@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20020801155424.GG97092@yoda.asitatech.ie>; from devnull@asitatech.ie on Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 03:54:24PM %2B0000 References: <20020731161322.O5057-100000@boise.neuroflux.com> <20020801102424.GC97092@yoda.asitatech.ie> <3D490353.8A5A07D4@mindspring.com> <20020801101639.A11972@blackhelicopters.org> <20020801155424.GG97092@yoda.asitatech.ie>
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On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 03:54:24PM +0000, Sergey Lyubka wrote: > Lions wrote a book far long ago, and it is still worth reading. > Why? > Because he didn't just show the code, he showed the concepts. Yes, this would be nice. But there's a reason why that book is such a standout: that sort of writing is very difficult to do. > Is it possible to get frosen version, say, 5.0 - current, > and describe it? I think it is. Many things may become obsolete, > but the knowledge I'm talking about will be revealed. Such book > must paint a solid and complete picture of FreeBSD kernel. You can write all you want, but if a publisher won't print it, you're out of luck. Publishers are very leery of things that are obsolete before they're printed. I'm not saying it *can't* be done, but it would be difficult to get a publisher to bite. That's why we have the developers' handbook online, specifically so things can be updated quickly. And it's difficult to get more text for that; the people who can write that text are busy writing code. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.nostarch.com/abs_bsd.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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