From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 15 4:46:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from begemot.org (negara.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.248.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B876115311 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 04:45:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from mojave.lemis.com (modem16.slip.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.97.115]) by begemot.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA07510; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 21:58:49 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by mojave.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.6.12) id OAA00475; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:39:21 +1300 (NZDT) Message-ID: <19991015143920.22018@mojave.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:39:20 +1300 From: Greg Lehey To: Stephen Roome , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Orielly book References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Stephen Roome on Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 05:17:06PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog 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 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