From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 15 10:32: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2659915453 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 10:31:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from owp.csus.edu (mothra.ecs.csus.edu [130.86.76.220]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA13686; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 10:30:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <380764B2.513B03EE@owp.csus.edu> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 17:30:26 +0000 From: Joseph Scott Organization: Water Programs - CSU Sacramento X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Stephen Roome , Michael Lucas , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Orielly book References: <199910141632.MAA53620@blackhelicopters.org> <19991015150724.07602@mojave.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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. I've really liked most of the O'Reilly books. But I have to admit that a large portion of their books are for the mid range knowledge on the subject. However many of those are great resources, the the Camel book for Perl. I recently bought the MySQL/mSQL book and I was really disappointed. This is one book that I wonder what O'Reilly was thinking. I realize it may be hard because I've been spoiled by the great online docs for MySQL, but I was really hoping for something that would have more in depth info on stuff like scaling issues, replicating DB's, and such. > 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. In general I would say O'Reilly, I still think they have a great rep. However in my case I would probably buy a FreeBSD book done by either one ( or both if that was the case ). -- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message