From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 1 15: 7:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD1737B743 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:07:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA598F; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:08:50 -0700 Message-ID: <3936DE1E.A6D1D4FE@acuson.com> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 15:05:18 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John B P Melesky Cc: Thomas Good , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some food for thought...just desserts! References: <3936B849.C843B48C@acuson.com> <3936D255.78097884@smallflower.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John B P Melesky wrote: > also, i think Tim's warning in the last paragraph ("information hole" > vs. "not enough attention") should be heeded, even for a > letter/petition. figure out the exact topic of the book, and make sure > it's not redundant in some way to another book, then go for it. IMHO, there is a big gaping hole. And I'm not sure he's being totally forthright when he says he doesn't want redundancy. Scanning through the list of available Unix books, I see "SCO Unix in a Nutshell", "Unix in a Nutshell System V Edition", "Linux in a Nutshell" and "Running Linux". Even Linux has been split into distributions. I find "Learning Debian GNU/Linux" and "Learning Redhat Linux" (how redundant are these, I ask?). In fact, the only generalized Unix books I see is "Learning the Unix Operating System" and "Unix Power Tools". The hole is there. There is a dearth of non-SysV, non-Linux and non-GNU information. It would be nice to have a "Learning FreeBSD", but it appears that we will have to wait until "Learning SuSE Linux" and "Learning Corel Linux" are published first. But a "Running FreeBSD" could fill the hole without being redundant. If you look at "Running Linux", it is focuses heavily on Linux and not on generic Unix. I would suggest focusing on installation, adminstration, the differences between BSD and other Unices, and a selection of applications. Topics could include the BSD partitioning scheme and file system, sysinstall, BSD specific utilites, ports, porting, etc. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message