From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 19 23:43:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F7E914E95 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 23:43:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA03748; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 16:13:32 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id QAA38348; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 16:13:28 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 16:13:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com Cc: Kevin Lo , Brett Taylor , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD books (was: Amusing: LinuxCountry site runs on FreeBSD :)) Message-ID: <19990620161327.G6820@freebie.lemis.com> References: <37688E8F.C67AC3BC@hello.com.tw> <19990617160147.L9893@freebie.lemis.com> <376928B4.B0D91BC4@hello.com.tw> <19990617101533.A60003@ontario.mooseriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990617101533.A60003@ontario.mooseriver.com>; from Josef Grosch on Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 10:15:33AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 Thursday, 17 June 1999 at 10:15:33 -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 12:56:20AM +0800, Kevin Lo wrote: >> Greg Lehey wrote: >> >>> On Thursday, 17 June 1999 at 13:58:40 +0800, Kevin Lo wrote: >>>> Brett Taylor wrote: > > [ DELETED ] > >>>> I saw the O'Reilly book catalog last week, it will publish the book >>>> "FreeBSD in a Nutshell". I don't know whether it's true or not. >>> >>> This isn't the book we were talking about a year ago. I did a search >>> for "FreeBSD" on the O'Reilly web site, and this is all I found (at >>> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prkunix/author.html): >>> >>> Prior to joining O'Reilly & Associates as UNIX system administrator, >>> Nathan Patwardhan was a software developer and system administrator >>> for Banta Integrated Media in Cambridge, MA. When not hacking Perl >>> or advocating FreeBSD and Linux to his friends, coworkers, >>> relatives, and other folks who don't know UNIX from Munich, Nathan >>> is an avid music collector. >>> >>> The reference was to a Perl book. Maybe you could post your URL. >> >> Well, I sent Ben(who is a manager in O'Reilly publisher in Taiwan) >> an email to confirm this news. He said this book will be publish on July, >> but it's a Chinese version ONLY. > > > ARRRRGGG! What is it with Tim O'Reilly and FreeBSD? China and Taiwan is not > a very large market for us. Yet. In fact, China is one of the most UNIX-oriented countries around. That's why I spend so much time there. Wait a few years and it could easily overtake Japan. > Japan is a _HUGE_ market for FreeBSD, so why is O'Reilly bring out a > Chinese language version instead of a Japanese or English version. Nonetheless, it does sound strange to me. > If this is correct, this makes little sense. We, the FreeBSD > community, need to bring out our own version of "FreeBSD in a > nutshell". Of course, we can't use that title. Yes, that's one of the things I've been thinking of doing. How about "The essence of FreeBSD"? Or "The essential FreeBSD"? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message