From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 14 9:33:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 047B7150B3 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:33:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA53620; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 12:32:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) From: Michael Lucas Message-Id: <199910141632.MAA53620@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: Orielly book In-Reply-To: from Stephen Roome at "Oct 14, 1999 5:17: 6 pm" To: steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com (Stephen Roome) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 12:32:21 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I sent them a proposal. They bounced it. I get the impression that they'd need someone who can write higher-level stuff. A FreeBSD Newbus Device Drivers book would almost certainly succeed. A FreeBSD Generic Servers book won't. Just IMHO, reading between various lines. ==ml > I was reading the news stuff from the advocacy site and I wondered if... > > Has anyone approaced orielly about doing a book ? > > Tim O'Reilly seems very interested in the idea from the website. > > Would the handbook and FAQ and some of Greg's excellent books (although that > judgement is based on word of mouth, as I only remember the book that came with > 2.1.5) combine to make a complete O'Reilly guide. > > It's not that I didn't like the Complete FreeBSD or whatever it was called, but > the point is (IMHO) that an O'Reilly book would really give FreeBSD proper > "proffessional and serious" status. > > Or something like that. > > Steve Roome > > P.S. This was just an idea... please don't flame me. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message