From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 16 23: 0:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ms2.eranet.net (ms2.eranet.net [203.95.230.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7320150DB for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 23:00:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevlo@hello.com.tw) Received: from hello.com.tw (n068.n203-95-216.eranet.net [203.95.216.68]) by ms2.eranet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA01926; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 14:00:14 +0800 (CST) Message-ID: <37688E8F.C67AC3BC@hello.com.tw> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:58:40 +0800 From: Kevin Lo X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Amusing: LinuxCountry site runs on FreeBSD :) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brett Taylor wrote: > 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