From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 1 11: 7: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE5EA37B673 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 11:07:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA4367; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 11:08:21 -0700 Message-ID: <3936A5C3.CE04958A@acuson.com> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 11:04:51 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Good Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some food for thought...just desserts! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thomas Good wrote: > Do you live near NYC? You're welcome to stop by...I'll keep the > coffee warm. I'm afraid not, I live on the left coast. > Anyway, this would be a good thing - but probably > impossible unless the various vendors agreed to comply with base stds. This is already the goal of the Linux Standard Base. > Second conclusion: We need to lobby ORA to put out a fleet of FBSD books. > I am thinking of writing an open letter to Tim O. Wanna collaborate? I've got a lot of stuff on my plate already. Writing a letter is no problem, writing a book would be a lot of work. But I'm still thinking on it. Didn't there used to be an ORA BSD book years ago? I recall it was a generic Unix book, but geared towards 4.4BSD instead of their generic Unix books today that that are geared towards SysV and Solaris. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message