Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:58:40 +0800 From: Kevin Lo <kevlo@hello.com.tw> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Amusing: LinuxCountry site runs on FreeBSD :) Message-ID: <37688E8F.C67AC3BC@hello.com.tw> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906161636160.26305-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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Brett Taylor wrote: <snip> > The reason there are so few FreeBSD books: > > 1) because FreeBSD is derived from 4.4-BSD, any book on a BSD > Unix will apply (for most situations) > > 2) because FreeBSD is typically used by experienced sys admins > whereas Linux has (or had originally) the college hacker; > the experienced admins already have books on BSD style unix > > 3) no one, but Greg Lehey has written one; Greg has asked (if > I recall a thread from maybe 2 years ago) O'Reilly if they'd > be interested and they said no Hi, Brett, I saw the O'Reilly book catalog last week, it will publish the book "FreeBSD in a Nutshell". I don't know whether it's true or not. -- Kevin Lo | Linpus Technologies Inc. kevinlo@linpus.com.tw | http://www.linpus.com.tw To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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