Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 21:51:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org (Michael Lucas) Cc: jim@lust.geekhouse.net (Jim Mock), hamellr@heorot.1nova.com (Rick Hamell), freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD Magazine (Advertiser Responses) Message-ID: <200010052151.OAA15722@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20001005150613.A79428@blackhelicopters.org> from "Michael Lucas" at Oct 05, 2000 03:06:13 PM
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> There's a slew of publishers who are willing to publish *advanced* BSD > books, if you can write both device drivers and documentation. I will write one of these, if FreeBSD ever freezes its kernel APIs long enough to do so accurately. The problem with writing an advanced book is that FreeBSD will not commit to the moral equivalent of DDI/DKI, and revises its APIs too frequently for the time it takes to do an advanced book. Unlike beginner books, advanced books take about 2080 hours for an author to complete. For the math-concious among you, you will recognize that as 40 hours/week * 52 weeks/year, or about one year of full time work. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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