From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Oct 4 14:50:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE50237B503; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 14:50:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA48439; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 17:49:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 17:49:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Larry Wells Cc: "Ambrose, Christian" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD Magazine (Advertiser Responses) In-Reply-To: <001501c02e4a$b42bc980$2c0100c0@goalieusa.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I've stayed out of this until now but... (\me putting on Editor in Chief of DN Monthly hat) On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Larry Wells wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > I, for one, would be a lot less interested in a magazine that catered > exclusively to newbies. That's what books like the Complete FreeBSD > book are for. (Not to mention many websites. FreeBSDDiary, Daemon > News, etc..) While DN does cover some newbies articles, we have been trying to have at least one serious "Blueprints" article each month, detailing an advanced topic. In the last few months we've had: Dynamic Kernel Linker (KLD) Facility Programming Tutorial [Intro] An In-depth Study of NetBSD Bootstrapping and a Few Speedy Enhancements Writing an ISA device driver How to Write Kernel Drivers with NewBus And these are just the Blueprints articles - we've had more "non-newbie" articles as well. However we can only publish what we get. We've tried before to solicit articles on more advanced topics and ... frankly it's not been easy. I agree that a print magazine would be great but I don't want a rehashed version of the handbook for *BSD. Cripes, I'm not a programmer (okay, I do some, but the last serious thing I programmed was for my thesis and it was in Fortran), but I don't need to see lots of basic "how-to" articles. A few are good, but not a whole magazine worth. That said, and as Chris has mentioned, we at DN _are_ trying to figure out a way to go print. We tried this once before and things sort of fell through - try try again. But if someone else can do it, get to it. Don't sit on your butts waiting for us! (or on the other hand, get your butt over to us and HELP us) :-) (\me taking off EiC hat and back to work) Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message