Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 17:20:41 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Coleman <chris@bb.cc.wa.us> To: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, mcgovern@spoon.beta.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Constructive criticism (was: bashing everyone for fun and profit) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970131170936.10467A-100000@aries.bb.cc.wa.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.94.970131185755.9495A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com>
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On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Mark Mayo wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: SNIP > > purposes. Also, "The Complete FreeBSD" == "Installing and Running FreeBSD" > > with printed man pages, that's all. :-) I wrote an email to Greg, and mentioned what I was trying to do. He said he left alot of system administration stuff out of his latest book. So I thought I'd include some of that. Mostly I think I am aiming at the First time System administrators. Having access to Free Unix lands alot more of us in the position of System Administrator than any Commercial Unix Server ever could. I was one of them. SNIP > > > but to create a book on something else! Essentially, focus more on what > you can do with FreeBSD after the installation. > > Check out http://www.bb.cc.wa.us/~chris/book.html for the preliminary > Table of Contents I try to post something new each day, even if it is small. > > > > Would this book be written in SGML and back-portable to the FreeBSD > > web page distribution, or what exactly? If the author finds SGML too > > constraining and retreats to HTML or some other format then I > > certainly understand and won't gritch about it, I'm just wondering. > > I just got my first SGML book, "The Concise <SGML> Companion". So I don't know much about SGML. I was going to worry about content first. But I am becoming fond of the Idea that this is an On-line Book. So I am open to suggestions. > I guess it's undecided so far - Chris is putting it together, and it's his > idea. It's an open effort, with a consideration of possibly publishing a > book -- we both noticed that the Sams.Net "How to make a Linux Internet > Server" books are insanely popular.. We're planning on describing our own > trials and tribulations of starting from scratch with FreeBSD and ending > up with the amazing things you can accomplish with the OS. All ideas are > welcome of course - take a look at the TOC and give Chris (or me) > feedback! > > -mark Linux has too many books. I would like to see a few other titles for FreeBSD generated in concert to this one. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com > RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity." > Cicero (106-43 B.C.) > > > > > > Jordan > > > > Christopher J. Coleman (chris@aries.bb.cc.wa.us) Computer Support Technician I (509)-766-8873 Big Bend Community College Internet Instructor FreeBSD Book Project: http://www.bb.cc.wa.us/~chris/book.html Death is life's way of telling you you're fired.
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