From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 10 19:23:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA01804 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:23:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA01704 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:23:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-59.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.59]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id RAA05826; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 17:51:29 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA23258; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 17:51:27 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199801102351.RAA23258@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Chat From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Book Request In-reply-to: Message from Greg Lehey of "Fri, 09 Jan 1998 18:07:58 +1030." <19980109180758.55257@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 17:51:27 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey writes: > Don't count on it. "Porting UNIX Software" sold about 2000 copies on > initial release. That's about what "The Complete FreeBSD" sells in 6 > weeks. In fact, CFBSD has been a much better seller than PUS, despite > the relative strengths of the marketing organizations. I've told that > to O'Reilly, but either they don't believe me, or they don't care. Well, I've got one of those 2000. Pasted from another message in the same thread: >> I did my part, bought the whole set of 4.4BSD books. I have about 6' >> of ORA books. > > Don't tell them that. If they think that everybody who would be > interested in CFBSD had already bought the 4.4BSD books, that would > definitely turn them off. Bought the 4.4BSD partly because it was cheaper than printing all the info in /usr/share/doc/{psd,usd,smm} and its often easier to handle a real book than computer monitor or printouts. I aquired 6' of ORA books because I have (and/or "have had", time to think about that some more) a high opinion of ORA books and would often buy another by ORA rather than some other publisher simply because I don't think I've ever been burned with a useless book from ORA. The logic escapes me that ORA will stay out of *BSD books and discount my request simply because I already own a lot of ORA books. I'm a sucker, I'll buy more *BSD books, just like other lemmings who buy anything that says Linux in the title. Suggested title for a new FreeBSD book: "FreeBSD Is Not Linux", this way you get the (seemingly) mandatory Linux word in the title, and you get published. ;-) -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.