From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 14 16:25:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA23579 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:25:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA23573 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:24:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA07050; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:23:56 -0700 (PDT) To: Terry Lambert cc: jbryant@tfs.net, dennis@etinc.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:36:02 PDT." <199704142136.OAA19436@phaeton.artisoft.com> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:23:56 -0700 Message-ID: <7046.861060236@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I would write a book for FreeBSD, but... > > o It takes ~2000 hours to write a decent book. This is one > man year. FreeBSD can't maintain stable interfaces for > one man year, so my book would be outdated. Linux can > mantain stable interfaces because they have to walk a > terrifically fine line between all their various distributions. Strange. I've just signed up with Addison-Wesley to do the long-awaited FreeBSD book and I don't anticipate any trouble like this. It's also not like I'm documenting the kernel interfaces or anything since that's not the kind of book that the great majority of people really need anyway - they need something which describes how to create various types of FreeBSD based solutions. If somebody wants to write "The FreeBSD Kernel Hacker's Guide" then they're more than encouraged to go for it, but I don't think that the market is quite ready to support that kind of book. A general "FreeBSD Bible", yes, and that's what I'm going to write. > o I would have to voice my honest opinions about some very > idiotic things which never change, even though they have > been pointed at time and again and the statement made "hey, > look here at this idiotic thing". Which perhaps suggests that pointing at things and saying "hey, look here at this idiotic thing" isn't the way to change things? Naw, you're right, that's too logical a conclusion to make - what was I thinking? > [Additional drivel about kings and oil-rich countries deleted] Jordan