Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 14:50:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, ken@mui.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Interne Message-ID: <19980410145034.55532@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <980409233256.ZM381@execpc.com>; from Frank Pawlak on Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 11:32:56PM -0500 References: <199804092124.OAA00915@dingo.cdrom.com> <199804092140.PAA04541@lariat.lariat.org> <199804092230.MAA04112@rocksalt.mui.net> <19980409224502.A15297@emsphone.com> <dnelson@emsphone.com> <980409233256.ZM381@execpc.com>
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On Thu, 9 April 1998 at 23:32:56 -0500, Frank Pawlak wrote: > On Apr 9, 10:45pm, Dan Nelson wrote: >>> 6- Linux is starting to be written in lots of books. There's no link >>> to FreeBSD. No logical step for someone. If they have DOS, then >>> it's logical to get win31. if win31, then win95. If linux, then >>> redhat. perhaps if redhat, then FreeBSD <grin>. Greg Lehey's book >>> is a good start. It references FreeBSD specifically. There needs to >>> be more to get popular. O'Reilly would be a good place to try to >>> drum up support, perhaps. >> >> The reason for this is that FreeBSD wasn't created from scratch like >> Linux. Any book on 4.4BSD applies almost directly to FreeBSD, and >> there are a lot of papers on different parts of BSD Unix. They just >> don't have 'FreeBSD' written on them. > > Compared to the books on Linux the 4.4BSD books are way over the head of Joe > User. Greg Lehey's book is a gem, and that is the kind of thing that is > needed. Thanks. Unfortunately, ORA doesn't even start to agree with you. They've repeatedly turned down offers of taking over publication, and even of looking at the book. ORA Germany took a copy, and liked it, but they wouldn't be able to publish it in Germany. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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