Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:01:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Kevin Lo <kevlo@hello.com.tw> Cc: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD books (was: Amusing: LinuxCountry site runs on FreeBSD :)) Message-ID: <19990617160147.L9893@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <37688E8F.C67AC3BC@hello.com.tw>; from Kevin Lo on Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 01:58:40PM %2B0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906161636160.26305-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> <37688E8F.C67AC3BC@hello.com.tw>
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On Thursday, 17 June 1999 at 13:58:40 +0800, Kevin Lo wrote: > 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; There are plenty of non-English language books, and there are a couple of English-language books in planning. >> Greg has asked (if I recall a thread from maybe 2 years >> ago) O'Reilly if they'd be interested and they said no Well, they only said no to me :-) I think that Nate Patwardhan is writing one, but I'm a little concerned that nobody knows him. > 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. This isn't the book we were talking about a year ago. I did a search for "FreeBSD" on the O'Reilly web site, and this is all I found (at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prkunix/author.html): Prior to joining O'Reilly & Associates as UNIX system administrator, Nathan Patwardhan was a software developer and system administrator for Banta Integrated Media in Cambridge, MA. When not hacking Perl or advocating FreeBSD and Linux to his friends, coworkers, relatives, and other folks who don't know UNIX from Munich, Nathan is an avid music collector. The reference was to a Perl book. Maybe you could post your URL. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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