From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 17 9:58:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ms1.eranet.net (ms1.eranet.net [203.95.230.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80333151A8 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:58:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevlo@hello.com.tw) Received: from hello.com.tw (n059.n203-95-216.eranet.net [203.95.216.59]) by ms1.eranet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA27410; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 00:57:54 +0800 (CST) Message-ID: <376928B4.B0D91BC4@hello.com.tw> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 00:56:20 +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: Greg Lehey Cc: Brett Taylor , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD books (was: Amusing: LinuxCountry site runs on FreeBSD :)) References: <37688E8F.C67AC3BC@hello.com.tw> <19990617160147.L9893@freebie.lemis.com> 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 Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 17 June 1999 at 13:58:40 +0800, Kevin Lo wrote: > > 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; > > 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. Well, I sent Ben(who is a manager in O'Reilly publisher in Taiwan) an email to confirm this news. He said this book will be publish on July, but it's a Chinese version ONLY. > Greg -- 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