From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 8 14:37:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA10587 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 14:37:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA10492 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 14:36:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA27926; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 09:06:29 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA04894; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 09:06:22 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980109090622.20884@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 09:06:22 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Sean Kelly Cc: Jamie Bowden , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Book Request References: <199801081332.IAA01281@gatekeeper.itribe.net> <34B4F5F5.4A9A3B24@fsl.noaa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <34B4F5F5.4A9A3B24@fsl.noaa.gov>; from Sean Kelly on Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 08:51:17AM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 08:51:17AM -0700, Sean Kelly wrote: >> Has anyone at O'Reilly said why they don't want to do any FreeBSD books? > > I've approached O'Reilly as well about authoring a FreeBSD book as well. > Both Tim and Andy Oram said that they pretty much want to stick with Linux > since they believe that's where the market is. I got a private reply from Andy saying that they had noticed a surprising resilience in the UNIX line (doesn't that say a lot!), and he would try yet again. I don't suppose it would do any harm if other people would send in a message to the O'Reilly people asking for a FreeBSD book. Don't all do it at once! A steady trickle has more effect. Greg