From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 07:58:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA23016 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 07:58:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gratia.it.hq.nasa.gov (Gratia.it.hq.nasa.gov [131.182.119.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA23005 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 07:58:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cshenton@gratia.it.hq.nasa.gov) Received: from wirehead.it.hq.nasa.gov (WireHead.it.hq.nasa.gov [131.182.119.88]) by gratia.it.hq.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA23965; Mon, 18 May 1998 10:50:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from cshenton@localhost) by wirehead.it.hq.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23980; Mon, 18 May 1998 10:58:01 -0400 (EDT) To: Greg Lehey Cc: "Christopher R. Maden" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tim O'Reilly on FreeBSD References: <199805151654.MAA08398@crism.ne.mediaone.net> <19980516111425.X1953@freebie.lemis.com> X-Emacs: Emacs 20.2, MULE 3.0 (MOMIJINOGA) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.2.0 - "Nishiizumi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Chris Shenton Date: 18 May 1998 10:58:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey's message of Sat, 16 May 1998 11:14:25 +0930 Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey writes: > It's a pity there's no date on this message. I heard from Andy Oram > at O'Reilly and Associates about a month ago, and we're going to do a > book. We're still thrashing out the details. It'll definitely be > smaller than "The Complete FreeBSD". It would be interesting to see some focus on how FreeBSD is better than alternatives -- including Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris-x86. For many folks who want to try unix, or even adepts that are just looking for the right match, this information is largely missing. I would think pointing to the number of ISPs that use FreeBSD would be a good point of info: speed, stability, networking, robustness... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message