From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 1 9:56: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 492D937B400 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:55:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.asitatech.com (mail.asitatech.ie [193.120.151.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 000E143E4A for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:55:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from devnull@asitatech.ie) Received: from yoda.asitatech.ie ([192.168.127.212]) by mail.asitatech.com (Merak 4.2.3) with ESMTP id FJA37319 for ; Thu, 01 Aug 2002 17:52:52 +0100 Received: by yoda.asitatech.ie (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 557C65C09; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:58:42 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:58:42 +0000 From: Sergey Lyubka To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Assembly, Kernels and Bootstraps Message-ID: <20020801175842.GH97092@yoda.asitatech.ie> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG 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> <20020801124747.A13036@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020801124747.A13036@blackhelicopters.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-OS: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I see. That's sad. > 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. -- Sergey Lyubka Asita Technologies Int, Galway, Ireland To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message