From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 25 01:21:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8409916A420; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:21:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C631943D48; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:21:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD623131DDD; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:51:46 +1030 (CST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9834C85EAD; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:51:46 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:51:46 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Giorgos Keramidas Message-ID: <20060225012146.GO49368@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20060224010027.GF65002@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060224062029.GJ49368@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060224121059.GC1411@flame.pc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="v9g2r9e2kvGs7M7R" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060224121059.GC1411@flame.pc> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 10 years of "The Complete FreeBSD" X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:21:48 -0000 --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 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 @@ > > book cover > > - The Complete FreeBSD with CDs, 3rd Ed, FreeBSD 4.2. > +

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!

Again, no CDs. > - Released: November 2000 ISBN: 1-57176-246-9 > - > +

Released: November 2000 ISBN: 1-57176-246-9

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. > +

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:

> + > +

http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/

> + 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--