From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 3 21:17:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA16834 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:17:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA16827 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:17:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA03860; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:47:33 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id PAA65805; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:47:31 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:47:31 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Josef Grosch Cc: Unfurl , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Is there a reseller program? Message-ID: <19990204154731.M1179@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990203133655.C16919@mooseriver.com> <19990203135254.A13235@dub.net> <19990204120129.Y1179@freebie.lemis.com> <19990203210740.A18995@mooseriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990203210740.A18995@mooseriver.com>; from Josef Grosch on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:07:40PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 3 February 1999 at 21:07:40 -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 12:01:29PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 3 February 1999 at 13:52:55 -0800, Unfurl wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 01:36:55PM -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: >>>> On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:32:10AM -0800, Nicole Harrington wrote: >>>> In reality we do need another FreeBSD book. Greg can't be >>>> carrying the whole load for us. >> >> Agreed. We need several books. > > I want everyone to understand, I meant no slam toward Greg. He has done a > bang-up job for us. Greg knows I am a fan of his work. I own every book he > has written except "The history of the Bassoon". Sorry, Greg. No one here > in Berkeley seems to carry it. ;-) To be fair, Langwill's book is better. > I just meant that we need more FreeBSD books. I'd write one if I could find > the time. You need lots of time. > I once suggested to Tim O'Reilly that he do a FreeBSD in a > Nutshell. That would be a good start for someone. And what did Tim say? He and his company have been pretty disinterested every time I've mentioned the subject. I was talking to them nearly a year ago now, but they stopped responding. I think we might see a book out of O'Reilly from Nate Patwardhan in the near future. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page 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