From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 21 02:06:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B28F2106564A for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:06:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00A768FC1D for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:06:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl10-74.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.137.74]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-4) with ESMTP id m6L1nOU5000926 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:49:30 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m6L1nOBL080069; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:49:24 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m6L1nNpi080068; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:49:23 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Allen Kenner References: <20080720230127.77FF98FC12@mx1.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:49:23 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20080720230127.77FF98FC12@mx1.freebsd.org> (Allen Kenner's message of "Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:53:27 -0400") Message-ID: <87r69oqa58.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-ID: m6L1nOU5000926 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.791, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.61, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:06:26 -0000 On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:53:27 -0400, Allen Kenner wrote: > I've been hearing a lot of good things about FreeBSD 7 and so I finally > downloaded it as the latest version I had was like 6.2 or > something. Seems nice. > > Does anyone know when the next time "The Complete FreeBSD" book is > going to be released? I've always liked that book and I'd like to have > a newer version of it on paper. My favorite one was "The Complete > FreeBSD" 3rd edition. I have a newer one but I just always loved the > way that version looked. It has a nice design, and cover, and overall > I love it the most. And I don't need a bookmark because of the front > cover doubling as one when you extended it. Good time heh. ``The Complete FreeBSD'' has been released by its author, Greg Lehey, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license now. You can get its complete sources and a PDF version at: http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ I don't know if Greg plans to publish an updated version, though. If I am reading the text of that page correctly, then the version on the site is slightly updated, but Greg cannot keep maitaining it anymore: ``Still, I think that "The Complete FreeBSD" is a unique book, and it's probably worth maintaining. But I can't do it myself. So: I'm making the sources available under the "Creative Commons" license (the book itself has been under this license since the O'Reilly edition).'' The fourth edition, published in 2003 by O'Reilly's "Community Press" series is, AFAICT, the last version that appeared on paper. If you like the book so much, maybe it's worth buying _that_ version. On the other hand, if you feel ambitious enough and you can help update the Creative Commons edition of the book, I think you should speak with Greg :) - Giorgos