From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 14 15:32:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADF7714FF9 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 15:32:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id AAA17535 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 00:32:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA98061 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 22:43:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Orielly book Date: 14 Oct 1999 22:43:56 +0200 Message-ID: <7u5fac$2vo4$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <199910141632.MAA53620@blackhelicopters.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Lucas wrote: > 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. Seems implausible to me. At least your example is highly specialized. There are probably less than a hundred people in the world who would buy a Newbus Device Drivers book. A "generic" FreeBSD book would probably sell thousands of copies. If you point people to FreeBSD, you often get asked what books there are about it. And the people asking this question don't care for device driver writing. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message