From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 06:20:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9568116A420 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:20:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BDBA43D70 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:20:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 583B6131E70; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:50:29 +1030 (CST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 2909185EAD; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:50:29 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:50:29 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: David Stanford Message-ID: <20060224062029.GJ49368@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20060224010027.GF65002@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="F4+N/OgRSdC8YnqX" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: 10 years of "The Complete FreeBSD" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:20:31 -0000 --F4+N/OgRSdC8YnqX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 23 February 2006 at 23:44:30 -0500, David Stanford wrote: > On 2/23/06, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >> Ten years ago today, on 24 February 1996, I submitted for publication >> the final version of the first ever book on FreeBSD, "Installing and >> Using FreeBSD". It was later renamed to "The Complete FreeBSD". >> >> I have always retained full rights to the book, and for today I've >> decided to release it for download under the Creative Commons >> license. See more at http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/. > > Greg, > > All I can think to say is thanks! You (and everybody else) are welcome. > I purchased this book nearly a year ago shortly after I began using > FreeBSD and it has been an invaluable resource ever since. Now that > you have made it publicly available, maybe the FreeBSD project could > find a way to merge some of your book in with their own handbook That's happened already, as you can easily see by comparing http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum.html with chapter 12 of the book. The FreeBSD documentation project know they can rely on me to contribute documentation where it makes sense. > or at least link it on FreeBSD.org for newbies like myself to easily > find :). That's probably a good idea. Can somebody from the doc project comment? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --F4+N/OgRSdC8YnqX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD/qWsIubykFB6QiMRAq/iAJ45lct30iZqaqGJZDp8gSooVFpQ3gCfZABU a1vpRf7WU7c9xRKgPgcHu64= =ydF4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --F4+N/OgRSdC8YnqX--