Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 15:11:48 -0400 From: "Mikhail Evstiounin" <evstiounin@adelphia.net> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, "Stephen Roome" <steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com>, "Michael Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Orielly book Message-ID: <000201bf180e$83efc1c0$cc353018@evstiouninadelphia.net.pit.adelphia.net>
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Personally, If I need a full and accurate description how to do something
then I'll go for OR. If I need more conceptual and theoretical knowledge -
why that is done this way, conceptual design, more abstract ideas, more
theretical stuff - then I'll go for AW or PH.
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Stephen Roome <steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com>; Michael Lucas
<mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Friday, October 15, 1999 5:09 AM
Subject: Re: Orielly book
>On Thursday, 14 October 1999 at 17:47:55 +0100, Stephen Roome wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Michael Lucas wrote:
>>> I sent them a proposal. They bounced it.
>>>
>>> I get the impression that they'd need someone who can write
>>> higher-level stuff. A FreeBSD Newbus Device Drivers book would almost
>>> certainly succeed. A FreeBSD Generic Servers book won't.
>>>
>>> Just IMHO, reading between various lines.
>>
>> AFAIK the orielly books are fairly technical generally, maybe for Linux
they
>> can afford to produce a couple of simple "here's a getting started guide"
type
>> books, but probably not for FreeBSD.
>
>Well, I'm an O'Reilly author ("Porting UNIX Software"), and I
>disagree. I'd say that, for example, Addison-Wesley are more
>technical.
>
>The real problem with O'Reilly is that they had a disaster with the
>4.4BSD manuals, and it took a long time for them to realise that this
>wasn't BSD's fault.
>
>> Bearing in mind they'll want to make some money on it, it's probably
>> fair, however it would be in FreeBSD's interests to probably put
>> this high priority.
>
>OK, for the sake of discussion, which publisher do you people prefer?
>Addison Wesley or O'Reilly? I'm also discussing a book with AW, and I
>could do with some input.
>
>Greg
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