From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 15 05:14:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA10717 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 05:14:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.realtime.net (mail1.realtime.net [205.238.128.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA10651 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 12:14:18 GMT (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: (qmail 43748 invoked from network); 15 Apr 1998 12:14:14 -0000 Received: from zoom.realtime.net (HELO zoom.bga.com) (root@205.238.128.40) by mail1.realtime.net with SMTP; 15 Apr 1998 12:14:14 -0000 Received: from barnowl (apm7-206.realtime.net [204.96.0.206]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA10698; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 07:14:10 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 07:21:12 -0500 (CDT) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl To: Greg Lehey cc: David Shanes , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open Source Products In-Reply-To: <19980415122623.Z1870@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org There is such a book, IMHO. In a recent post to this list, I mentioned a little book published by O'Reilly, "Learning the UNIX Operating System." Before I had even begun to download FreeBSD, I went to the bookstore and asked about a "Dummies" book on unix. (Name recognition) The clerk alluded to his opinion on the stupididty and expense of those books and showed me this little 89 page wonder. He said it had more to offer than the two volumes of "dummies" books. It did, without burying the reader in stuff they are not ready to understand. It even covers X. John On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tue, 14 April 1998 at 11:46:35 -0700, David Shanes wrote: > >> Josef Grosch wrote: > >> > >>> Now, that is an interesting way to estimate ones installed base. I > >>> guess I was sleeping when this technique was discussed in my > >>> Probability and Statistics class in college. ;-) > >> > >> mmm, maybe that's the answer: spin out of control and hope enough people > >> write 'dummies' books to try to profit from your huge user base, > >> creating a huge hungry base of people who have to justify their $30 > >> books... GNU's Not UNIX... FreeBSD's Not Linux.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz > >> disconnect timeout. > > > > Interesting idea... Not that a "FreeBSD for Dummies" book would not have > > any more information than Greg's book, but it *would* be in a more familiar > > format for the masses. > > I think that might really be a valid pursuit! > > There's certainly place for another book on FreeBSD. And whoever gets > a book published with IDG is going to be way past me (and ORA) in > terms of volume. > > Greg > > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message