From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 31 17:23:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA26773 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 17:23:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from aries.bb.cc.wa.us (root@[208.8.136.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA26766 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 17:23:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by aries.bb.cc.wa.us (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA10511; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 17:20:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 17:20:41 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Coleman Reply-To: Chris Coleman To: Mark Mayo cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Julian Elischer , Terry Lambert , mcgovern@spoon.beta.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Constructive criticism (was: bashing everyone for fun and profit) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 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.