From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 20 1:37:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83EBB14D83 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 01:37:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA04006; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:07:51 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id SAA42199; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:07:54 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:07:53 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: SUR Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD books (was: Amusing: LinuxCountry site runs on FreeBSD :)) Message-ID: <19990620180753.H6820@freebie.lemis.com> References: <000b01bebaf6$2ee6ee80$4339f7a5@ntwks> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <000b01bebaf6$2ee6ee80$4339f7a5@ntwks>; from SUR on Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 04:23:32AM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 20 June 1999 at 4:23:32 -0400, SUR wrote: > On Sunday, June 20, 1999 3:17 AM, owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG On Behalf Of Jonathon Doran wrote: >> >>> Yes, that's one of the things I've been thinking of doing. How about >>> "The essence of FreeBSD"? Or "The essential FreeBSD"? >>> >> How about "The Zen of FreeBSD", fits with the Berkeley origins. > > actually, i really like "Tao of FreeBSD". really recognizable books > such as Tao of Physics, Tao of Pooh, Tao of Symbols....granted Zen and > Motorcycle Repair is fairly popular....i just like Tao better ;) much > easier to get "essence" of FreeBSD from Tao than Zen IMO. after all, > the book would be a condensed guide. Remember that the main purpose of a title is to interest people in the book. I don't think either of these would convey the right impression. 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