Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:07:24 +1300 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Stephen Roome <steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com>, Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Orielly book Message-ID: <19991015150724.07602@mojave.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPX.4.10.9910141744380.21065-100000@mothra.bri.hp.com>; from Stephen Roome on Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 05:47:55PM %2B0100 References: <199910141632.MAA53620@blackhelicopters.org> <Pine.HPX.4.10.9910141744380.21065-100000@mothra.bri.hp.com>
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On Thursday, 14 October 1999 at 17:47:55 +0100, Stephen Roome wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Michael Lucas wrote:
>> 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.
>
> AFAIK the orielly books are fairly technical generally, maybe for Linux they
> can afford to produce a couple of simple "here's a getting started guide" type
> books, but probably not for FreeBSD.
Well, I'm an O'Reilly author ("Porting UNIX Software"), and I
disagree. I'd say that, for example, Addison-Wesley are more
technical.
The real problem with O'Reilly is that they had a disaster with the
4.4BSD manuals, and it took a long time for them to realise that this
wasn't BSD's fault.
> Bearing in mind they'll want to make some money on it, it's probably
> fair, however it would be in FreeBSD's interests to probably put
> this high priority.
OK, for the sake of discussion, which publisher do you people prefer?
Addison Wesley or O'Reilly? I'm also discussing a book with AW, and I
could do with some input.
Greg
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