From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 15:55:00 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 9BEF716A420 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:55:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mj001@rogers.com) Received: from smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D08E43D49 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:54:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mj001@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 37847 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2006 15:54:57 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=6wESrRaOiGSSEgfO9pCAGLsOuZjrv9qb3iknbIpi0VU9K+p4bLNsucvCx9IM0jKlDnIIdMW1WpiAku3mwG6D4W8T9Nr5KBAV+SjiJLTQre+NrDFXmTAYQIi25U5KelYlILfDBCHl8VFwXUFnIFMb9RIBv6Ueh0DGtkPQxgdYl1E= ; Received: from unknown (HELO chaucer.jeays.ca) (mj001@rogers.com@72.139.51.96 with plain) by smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Feb 2006 15:54:57 -0000 From: Mike Jeays To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey In-Reply-To: <20060224062029.GJ49368@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20060224010027.GF65002@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060224062029.GJ49368@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:54:51 -0500 Message-Id: <1140796491.16687.63.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 15:55:00 -0000 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 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