From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 20 10:27:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bogslab.ucdavis.edu (bogslab.ucdavis.edu [169.237.68.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE75014CC1 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 10:27:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu) Received: from deal1.bogs.org (deal1.bogs.org [198.137.203.51]) by bogslab.ucdavis.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA09334 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 10:27:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from deal1.bogs.org ([127.0.0.1]) by deal1.bogs.org (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA29478 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 10:27:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199906201727.KAA29478@deal1.bogs.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-To: Greg Lehey X-Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD books (was: Amusing: LinuxCountry site runs on FreeBSD :)) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Jun 1999 16:13:27 +0930." <19990620161327.G6820@freebie.lemis.com> Reply-To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 10:27:34 -0700 From: Greg Shenaut Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <19990620161327.G6820@freebie.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey cleopede: >> If this is correct, this makes little sense. We, the FreeBSD >> community, need to bring out our own version of "FreeBSD in a >> nutshell". Of course, we can't use that title. > >Yes, that's one of the things I've been thinking of doing. How about >"The essence of FreeBSD"? Or "The essential FreeBSD"? I use the O'Reilly "UNIX in a nutshell: a desktop quick reference for Berkeley" all the time with FreeBSD, and it is usually fairly adequate; it's not clear to me that writing a new, fbsd-specific version would be all that helpful. What would really be of value, I think, is something on the order of "A Free UNIX Reference", and it should emphasize the similarities while dealing with the differences of current Linux and *BSD systems. Given the present trend toward Linux, this might be the best way to put the attributes of *BSD before the maximum number of interested readers. It could also be really useful if you are reasonably fluent in one flavor of free unix, but have a problem that would be solved most efficiently by using another. And IMHO it would be at least as useful as any standard reference to a single one of the target systems. -Greg Shenaut To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message