From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 16 13:37:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from begemot.org (negara.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.248.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BAB7154A6 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 13:37:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from mojave.lemis.com (modem14.slip.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.97.113]) by begemot.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA14814; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 09:39:26 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by mojave.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.6.12) id IAA06853; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 08:48:00 +1300 (NZDT) Message-ID: <19991017084800.61017@mojave.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 08:48:00 +1300 From: Greg Lehey To: Stephen Roome Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Orielly book References: <19991015150724.07602@mojave.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Stephen Roome on Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 11:39:54AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 15 October 1999 at 11:39:54 +0100, Stephen Roome wrote: > Firstly, I must say that none of this was because I would personally > like an O'Reilly (or anyone else) book on FreeBSD. I don't think I > currently need one, although an up to date book about how the kernel > works (that I can easily obtain in the UK) would be nice. Kirk McKusick is working on a FreeBSD internals book for AW. It'll be an adaptation of "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System", and I can guess what the title will be. > I think the focus on O'Reilly follows the "O'Reilly book on Internet > Porn" joke picture that someone sent me. I haven't seen this one. >> The real problem with O'Reilly is that they had a disaster with the >> 4.4BSD manuals, and it took a long time for them to realise that this >> wasn't BSD's fault. > > I suppose to any publisher this counts as a new genre, and large > companies (and therefore any serious publishing house) rarely break > new ground. [IVMHO it's mainly the small companies that do this.] Well, I would have thought that O'Reilly was pretty well used to this area. I was surprised that they miscalculated. Maybe it's because they're not a small company any more. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message