Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:43:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@freeside.fc.net> To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD books (was: Amusing: LinuxCountry site runs on FreeBSD :)) Message-ID: <199906211943.OAA90029@freeside.fc.net> In-Reply-To: <199906201727.KAA29478@deal1.bogs.org> from Greg Shenaut at "Jun 20, 1999 10:27:34 am"
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Greg Shenaut babbled:
> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 10:27:34 -0700
> In message <19990620161327.G6820@freebie.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey cleopede:
> >
> >Yes, that's one of the things I've been thinking of doing. How about
> >"The essence of FreeBSD"? Or "The essential FreeBSD"?
>
> I use the O'Reilly "UNIX in a nutshell: a desktop quick reference
> for Berkeley" all the time with FreeBSD, and it is usually fairly
> adequate; it's not clear to me that writing a new, fbsd-specific
> version would be all that helpful.
>
> What would really be of value, I think, is something on the order
> of "A Free UNIX Reference", and it should emphasize the similarities
> while dealing with the differences of current Linux and *BSD systems.
> Given the present trend toward Linux, this might be the best way
> to put the attributes of *BSD before the maximum number of interested
> readers. It could also be really useful if you are reasonably
> fluent in one flavor of free unix, but have a problem that would
> be solved most efficiently by using another. And IMHO it would be
> at least as useful as any standard reference to a single one of
> the target systems.
I guess I should have read this before replying before. This is really a
very good idea. Might this be called "The Essential BSD" and just cover
the three versions thereof, or should it include Linux as suggested above?
--
Jerry Dunham FreeBSD Atarian ordinaire
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