From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 9 12:27:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA08900 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 12:27:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from python.shoal.net.au (andrew@python.shoal.net.au [203.26.44.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA08878 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 12:27:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@python.shoal.net.au) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by python.shoal.net.au (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA10027; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 07:26:14 +1100 (EST) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 07:26:13 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew Perry To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Book Request In-Reply-To: <19980109090622.20884@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 > > On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 08:51:17AM -0700, Sean Kelly wrote: > >> Has anyone at O'Reilly said why they don't want to do any FreeBSD books? > > > > I've approached O'Reilly as well about authoring a FreeBSD book as well. > > Both Tim and Andy Oram said that they pretty much want to stick with Linux > > since they believe that's where the market is. > > I got a private reply from Andy saying that they had noticed a > surprising resilience in the UNIX line (doesn't that say a lot!), and > he would try yet again. I don't suppose it would do any harm if other > people would send in a message to the O'Reilly people asking for a > FreeBSD book. Don't all do it at once! A steady trickle has more > effect. > > Greg > Got an e-mail address? Andrew Perry andrew@shoal.net.au