Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:54:51 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 10 years of "The Complete FreeBSD" Message-ID: <1140796491.16687.63.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> In-Reply-To: <20060224062029.GJ49368@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20060224010027.GF65002@wantadilla.lemis.com> <f2c91f770602232044s41476556ke6678759c6603204@mail.gmail.com> <20060224062029.GJ49368@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 16:50 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 23 February 2006 at 23:44:30 -0500, David Stanford wrote: > > On 2/23/06, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> 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. Here is one more vote of thanks for a very generous contribution to the community! My copy is getting quite dog-eared too, and it will be great to have a machine-readable version. -- Mike Jeays http://ca.geocities.com/mike.jeays@rogers.com
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