From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 24 9:51:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tornado.cisco.com (tornado.cisco.com [171.69.104.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CCC914C1E for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 09:51:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com) Received: from bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (bmcgover-pc.cisco.com [171.69.104.147]) by tornado.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/8.6.5) with ESMTP id MAA20715; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:51:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (localhost.pa.dtd.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA16494; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:51:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com) Message-Id: <199906241651.MAA16494@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> To: mmcdaniel@mcp.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Book Research (was Re: Question) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:51:50 -0400 From: Brian McGovern Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Maureen, Unfortunately, I can't answer your question about the web site hits, except to say "Alot". As far as the desire for books on FreeBSD, I think the market would take to it, especially if it had a nice big flashy cover so it stood out on a shelf full of Linux books. But, more seriously, we have some 100+ machines here in our lab at Cisco, and everyone in our group uses the systems on a daily basis. A few months ago, we purchased copies of Greg Lahey's book, "The Complete FreeBSD", for each of our engineers (some 50 copies at the time, we've increased in size since then). We're now looking at buying even more copies of the Third Edition, which recently came out, to bring everyone up to date with all of the latest 3.x changes and features. However, even with a book as great as Greg's, I constantly feel the need for a book for the "low power" user, who is relatively new to the enviornment who needs hand holding when it comes not only to system configuration (which we use Greg's book for daily), but also for the user aspects - such as setting up desktops, and to also explain a lot of the concepts of Unix and FreeBSD that don't have other mediums (ie - how sendmail interacts with DNS for security purposes blew two hours of my day yesterday). So, to get to the point, yes, more books are better. I also believe that you could make a killing if the book was targeted to the right audience. If you have any other questions or comments, don't hesitate to contact me at bmcgover@cisco.com. -Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message