Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:39:20 +1300 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Stephen Roome <steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Orielly book Message-ID: <19991015143920.22018@mojave.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPX.4.10.9910141710520.21065-100000@mothra.bri.hp.com>; from Stephen Roome on Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 05:17:06PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.HPX.4.10.9910141710520.21065-100000@mothra.bri.hp.com>
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On Thursday, 14 October 1999 at 17:17:06 +0100, Stephen Roome wrote: > I was reading the news stuff from the advocacy site and I wondered if... > > Has anyone approaced orielly about doing a book ? Yes, several times. > 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. That's a good question. > 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. I've tried times to get O'Reilly interested. The last time was after this statement by Tim that they turned down a previous attempt, and were now regretting it. I'm talking to an editor at O'Reilly, and it's possible that we'll come up with a (Free)BSD systems administration book. Don't hold your breath; it would be at least a year before anything came of it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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