From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 1 13:27:33 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 950B237B400 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:27:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web21101.mail.yahoo.com (web21101.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.227.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 428DD43E4A for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:27:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hitmaster2k@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020801202729.66669.qmail@web21101.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [62.254.0.5] by web21101.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 01 Aug 2002 13:27:29 PDT Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:27:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Hiten Pandya Reply-To: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Assembly, Kernels and Bootstraps To: Michael Lucas , Sergey Lyubka Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020801124747.A13036@blackhelicopters.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 --- Michael Lucas wrote: > 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. Not necceserily, a person from Addison Wesley , was interested in publishing the developer's handbook, when it was filled with information. I am not trying to argue though. :-) > 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. -- Hiten __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message