From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 21 12:40:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8973815132 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:40:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdunham@freeside.fc.net) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id OAA89624; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:38:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <199906211938.OAA89624@freeside.fc.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD books (was: Amusing: LinuxCountry site runs on FreeBSD :)) In-Reply-To: <199906200707.AAA14489@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> from "Bruce A. Mah" at "Jun 20, 1999 00:07:07 am" To: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce Mah) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:38:29 -0500 (CDT) Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), jgrosch@MooseRiver.com, kevlo@hello.com.tw (Kevin Lo), brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu (Brett Taylor), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce A. Mah babbled: > To: Greg Lehey > Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 00:07:07 -0700 > If memory serves me right, Greg Lehey wrote: > > >> If this is correct, this makes little sense. We, the FreeBSD > >> community, need to bring out our own version of "FreeBSD in a > >> nutshell". Of course, we can't use that title. > > > > Yes, that's one of the things I've been thinking of doing. How about > > "The essence of FreeBSD"? Or "The essential FreeBSD"? > > Personally, I like "The Essential FreeBSD". > > After reading the first suggestion, the next words that popped into my > head were "cologne" and "L'Eau de FreeBSD", but that's heading off in a > way weird direction. That means it's time for me to stop reading mail > and go to bed. I rather like "the Essential FreeBSD", too, but then you'd expect me to agree with another ex-Atarian and Suzuki rider (or did I get the wrong Bruce Mah?). -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD Atarian ordinaire jdunham@fc.net (512)335-0674 (H) jdunham@avalanche.us.dell.com (512)728-4026 (O) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message