From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 8 14:40:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA10979 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 14:40:52 -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 OAA10345 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 14:35:32 -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 JAA27919; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 09:04:57 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA04877; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 09:04:50 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980109090450.36060@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 09:04:50 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jamie Bowden Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Book Request References: <19980108161826.07668@lemis.com> <199801081332.IAA01281@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199801081332.IAA01281@gatekeeper.itribe.net>; from Jamie Bowden on Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 08:33:22AM -0500 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 08:33:22AM -0500, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 04:25:24PM -0800, Renaud Waldura wrote: > >> 2. I'm also the author of O'Reilly's "Porting UNIX Software". > > You wrote that? Yup. > I have been meaning to buy it anyway, now I have even more reason to > do so. Thanks. >> 3. I've been trying to convince O'Reilly to publish "The Complete >> FreeBSD" for nearly 2 years now. So far, they have seen no reason >> to do so. > > That's a shame. I think more stores would carry it if it were published > by O'Reilly. Agreed. That's why we keep trying. >> I'm copying my editor at O'Reilly, Andy Oram, on this reply. Andy >> seems more sympathetic to the idea of a FreeBSD book than most at >> O'Reilly. It doesn't mean that he can get up and make it happen, but >> I'm sure he'll be interested. > > Has anyone at O'Reilly said why they don't want to do any FreeBSD books? Andy's been the only one who had much to say on the subject. I think they grossly miscalculated the sales of the 4.4BSD manual set, and as a result were wary of anything called BSD. Greg