Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:18:27 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Renaud Waldura <rwaldura@LIGOS.COM> Cc: Andy Oram <andyo@ora.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Book Request Message-ID: <19980108161826.07668@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <9141909996F1D011B8FF00A0C95A661B08A3C8@server.ligos.com>; from Renaud Waldura on Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 04:25:24PM -0800 References: <9141909996F1D011B8FF00A0C95A661B08A3C8@server.ligos.com>
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On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 04:25:24PM -0800, Renaud Waldura wrote: > > O'Reilly, > > I already own quite a bunch of your computer books and I love them, but > I miss something: I think you should publish books about FreeBSD and > qmail. > > You already have some books on Linux, that's good, but FreeBSD is out > there, and pretty big too. There's one good FreeBSD-related book I know > of called "BSD 4.4" by Quatermann et al. but it's not very applied, it's > more kind of a CS text book about the OS. I think there's definitely a > need for a good, no-nonsense, technical book about FreeBSD. Just the way > you do them ;) > The FreeBSD Web site is at http://www.freebsd.org/. You can get in touch > with the core developers at core@freebsd.org. > > Qmail is replacement for sendmail, a sendmail-killer I hope, and it > works pretty damn great without all the typical sendmail flaws. Just by > looking at the thickness of your sendmail book one can guess that > sendmail needs a replacement ;) (Isn't it the thickest of all your > books--that's the thickest I own anyway). > The qmail Web site is at http://www.qmail.org/. The original qmail > developer is Dan Bernstein <djb@koobera.math.uic.edu>. > > I think O'Reilly would once more outstand its competitors by publishing > books on those two subjects. I at least would buy them immediately. Thanks for the suggestion, Renaud. You apparently don't know: 1. There is a book out there already, "The Complete FreeBSD", published by Walnut Creek CDROM. See http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/bsdbook.htm for more details. 2. I'm also the author of O'Reilly's "Porting UNIX Software". 3. I've been trying to convince O'Reilly to publish "The Complete FreeBSD" for nearly 2 years now. So far, they have seen no reason to do so. I'm copying my editor at O'Reilly, Andy Oram, on this reply. Andy seems more sympathetic to the idea of a FreeBSD book than most at O'Reilly. It doesn't mean that he can get up and make it happen, but I'm sure he'll be interested. In any case, thanks for the suggestion. I fear it's not going to change much, but it's a step in the riht direction. Greg
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