Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:50:29 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: David Stanford <dthomas53@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 10 years of "The Complete FreeBSD" Message-ID: <20060224062029.GJ49368@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <f2c91f770602232044s41476556ke6678759c6603204@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060224010027.GF65002@wantadilla.lemis.com> <f2c91f770602232044s41476556ke6678759c6603204@mail.gmail.com>
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--F4+N/OgRSdC8YnqX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 23 February 2006 at 23:44:30 -0500, David Stanford wrote: > On 2/23/06, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> Ten years ago today, on 24 February 1996, I submitted for publication >> the final version of the first ever book on FreeBSD, "Installing and >> Using FreeBSD". It was later renamed to "The Complete FreeBSD". >> >> I have always retained full rights to the book, and for today I've >> decided to release it for download under the Creative Commons >> license. See more at http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/. > > Greg, > > All I can think to say is thanks! You (and everybody else) are welcome. > I purchased this book nearly a year ago shortly after I began using > FreeBSD and it has been an invaluable resource ever since. Now that > you have made it publicly available, maybe the FreeBSD project could > find a way to merge some of your book in with their own handbook That's happened already, as you can easily see by comparing http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum.html with chapter 12 of the book. The FreeBSD documentation project know they can rely on me to contribute documentation where it makes sense. > or at least link it on FreeBSD.org for newbies like myself to easily > find :). That's probably a good idea. Can somebody from the doc project comment? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --F4+N/OgRSdC8YnqX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD/qWsIubykFB6QiMRAq/iAJ45lct30iZqaqGJZDp8gSooVFpQ3gCfZABU a1vpRf7WU7c9xRKgPgcHu64= =ydF4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --F4+N/OgRSdC8YnqX--
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