From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 9 22:21:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA16397 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 22:21:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA16386 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 22:21:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA16868; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 14:50:35 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id OAA01458; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 14:50:35 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980410145034.55532@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 14:50:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Frank Pawlak , Dan Nelson , ken@mui.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Interne References: <199804092124.OAA00915@dingo.cdrom.com> <199804092140.PAA04541@lariat.lariat.org> <199804092230.MAA04112@rocksalt.mui.net> <19980409224502.A15297@emsphone.com> <980409233256.ZM381@execpc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <980409233256.ZM381@execpc.com>; from Frank Pawlak on Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 11:32:56PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 9 April 1998 at 23:32:56 -0500, Frank Pawlak wrote: > On Apr 9, 10:45pm, Dan Nelson wrote: >>> 6- Linux is starting to be written in lots of books. There's no link >>> to FreeBSD. No logical step for someone. If they have DOS, then >>> it's logical to get win31. if win31, then win95. If linux, then >>> redhat. perhaps if redhat, then FreeBSD . Greg Lehey's book >>> is a good start. It references FreeBSD specifically. There needs to >>> be more to get popular. O'Reilly would be a good place to try to >>> drum up support, perhaps. >> >> The reason for this is that FreeBSD wasn't created from scratch like >> Linux. Any book on 4.4BSD applies almost directly to FreeBSD, and >> there are a lot of papers on different parts of BSD Unix. They just >> don't have 'FreeBSD' written on them. > > Compared to the books on Linux the 4.4BSD books are way over the head of Joe > User. Greg Lehey's book is a gem, and that is the kind of thing that is > needed. Thanks. Unfortunately, ORA doesn't even start to agree with you. They've repeatedly turned down offers of taking over publication, and even of looking at the book. ORA Germany took a copy, and liked it, but they wouldn't be able to publish it in Germany. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message