Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:51:46 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 10 years of "The Complete FreeBSD" Message-ID: <20060225012146.GO49368@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20060224121059.GC1411@flame.pc> References: <20060224010027.GF65002@wantadilla.lemis.com> <f2c91f770602232044s41476556ke6678759c6603204@mail.gmail.com> <20060224062029.GJ49368@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060224121059.GC1411@flame.pc>
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--v9g2r9e2kvGs7M7R Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 24 February 2006 at 14:10:59 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-02-24 16:50, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On Thursday, 23 February 2006 at 23:44:30 -0500, David Stanford wrote: >>> 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 >>> 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? > > Yes. I would very much like to see this published online at least as > part of our "publish.html" page. > > Greg, > > if I have your approval, the following patch is the least I can to thank > you for all the work you've put into the book all these years, and for > releasing it now: You, too, are welcome :-) > --- publish.sgml 4 Oct 2005 21:58:59 -0000 1.66 > +++ publish.sgml 24 Feb 2006 12:07:48 -0000 > @@ -188,13 +188,21 @@ > <tr> > <td><a href="http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdcomp"><IMG SRC="gifs/bsdcomp-4.2.gif" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="220" alt="book cover"></a></td> > <td> > - The Complete FreeBSD with CDs, 3rd Ed, FreeBSD 4.2. > + <p>The Complete FreeBSD with CDs, 3rd Ed, FreeBSD 4.2. Well, the current version is the 4th edition, and it covers FreeBSD 5.0. It also doesn't have CDs. > Everything you ever wanted to know about how to get > your computer up and running FreeBSD. Includes 4 CDs > - containing the FreeBSD operating system! > + containing the FreeBSD operating system!</p> Again, no CDs. > - Released: November 2000 ISBN: 1-57176-246-9 > - </td> > + <p>Released: November 2000 ISBN: 1-57176-246-9</p> Released May 2003, ISBN 0-596-00516-4. You should probably mention that the publisher is now O'Reilly, and maybe link to http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cfreebsd/desc.html. > + <p>On 24 February 2006, at the 10th anniversary of the > + publication of the first ever book on FreeBSD, "Installing and > + Using FreeBSD", Greg Lehey has released the full text and > + sources of "The Complete FreeBSD" under the Creative Commons > + license. The book text & sources are available at:</p> > + > + <p><a href="http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/">http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/</a></p>; > + </td> Yup, that's fine. Since there are different versions, maybe you can also point out that this is the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license (yes, they ask for all that verbiage :-) 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. --v9g2r9e2kvGs7M7R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD/7EqIubykFB6QiMRAhgAAJ4wAietNA1UzFP8MpgL2wnof6p3wwCgis5q 44fGQ2KmQgFU85GvgGWmMCI= =8tr7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --v9g2r9e2kvGs7M7R--
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