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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
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On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Michael Dillon wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> No. It wasn't that well done of a book, IMHO.
> It would be better to write one from scratch rather that risk leaving
> Linux-isms in there.
> 
> And a very close second would be to start by writing a series of standalon
> HowTo documents for FreeBSD and then later rewrite that into a book.

I think that a set of How-To's would be easier to get going than a whole 
book.  I learnt this when doing my PhD (had to learn *something* from 
it): A PhD thesis is impossible to write; a Chapter of a PhD thesis is 
very hard to write; sections of chapters of a PhD thesis are manageable 
tasks!

regards,

Danny