From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 16 22:43:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA14406 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 22:43:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from python.shoal.net.au (python.shoal.net.au [203.26.44.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA14375 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 22:41:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from grfpc1 (monty-port7.shoal.net.au [203.26.44.17]) by python.shoal.net.au (8.8.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA22154; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 17:41:03 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <32DF2C41.212C@shoal.net.au> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 17:37:37 +1000 From: Andrew Perry X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: HOSOKAWA Tatsumi CC: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation tools...) References: <199701170326.MAA02123@frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Correct me if i'm wrong but didn't Greg Lehey put out a book called The Complete FreeBSD? Available from Walnut Creek. My memory being destroyed daily by thousands of beer molecules i apologise if i have credited the wrong person with this book. 8) that's not to say we couldn't all benefit from some translated/rewritten in english type books from sources below. :-) andrew perry andrew@shoal.net.au HOSOKAWA Tatsumi wrote: > > In article <1535.853468003@time.cdrom.com> > jkh@time.cdrom.com writes: > > >> The question is, what are we going to do about it? I'd love to write > >> articles for every magazine on the planet, but I haven't got the > >> time. :-( > > Some FreeBSD users in Japan have wrote, and are writing FreeBSD books > and magazine articles (last year, people in jp.freebsd.org talked > about what we lack, and the conclusion is that it's good books and > localized documentation. Japanese/Chinese sysinstall, Japanese > Handbook, and Japanese online manual are the results of this > discussion). This is the list of Japanese books and magazines about > FreeBSD published in the fourth quarter of 1996. > > Sep. 1996, "All about FreeBSD" (about 40 pages) in "Software Design" > Sep.? 1996, "FreeBSD Introduction Kit" (book) > Oct. 1996, "Installing FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE" (24 pages includs 13 > color pages) in "UNIX User" (it's mine) > Dec. 1996 "FreeBSD Power Guide" (book) > > and, as far as I know, two magazines are going to publish special > numbers features FreeBSD and three books are going to be published > within a few months. I'm writing a book about FreeBSD and going to > write an article on a magazine next month. > > And I got a good Chinese FreeBSD book "Introduction and Application of > FreeBSD" written by Jian-Da Li (Thanks!) in Taiwan R.O.C.. > > Perhaps, now what people need is good English book about FreeBSD :-). > > -- > HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi E-mail: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp > WWW homepage: http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa.html > Department of Computer Science, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan