From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 17 00:29:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id AAA17631 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 00:29:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from superior.truenorth.org (ppp026-sm2.sirius.com [205.134.231.26]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id AAA17625 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 00:29:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by superior.truenorth.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA14181; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 00:21:34 -0800 (PST) From: Josef Grosch Message-Id: <199701170821.AAA14181@superior.truenorth.org> Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation tools...) In-Reply-To: <32DF2C41.212C@shoal.net.au> from Andrew Perry at "Jan 17, 97 05:37:37 pm" To: andrew@shoal.net.au (Andrew Perry) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 00:21:34 -0800 (PST) Cc: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: jgrosch@sirius.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 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. :-( >> [ DELETED ] Yes, you are correct. Greg Lehey did write "The Complete FreeBSD" and a damn fine book at that. I have it on good authority that Greg is working on another FreeBSD book. The problem still remains. The average person trying out a free UNIX is going to walk into a computer bookstore and be confronted with dozens of Linux books and __ONE__ FreeBSD book. Not to mention the hundreds of WinLose books. For guys like me who cut their teeth on 4.3BSD running on VAXen 11/750 the lack of howto books for my favorite OS is not a real problem. If I have a question on how something works I'll just read the source. The rest of the planet that has this thing called "a life" wants a book that will explain how to mount a CD, etc. What we really need is a FreeBSD equivalent of a VW repair manual I used to use called, "How to keep you VW alive, A step-by-step guide for the complete idiot." A magazine about FreeBSD would also be nice. Hell, even Byte and PC (what-ever-it's-called) has toned down their fawning over microsloth and started reporting about Linux. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Laugh while you can, monkey boy ! | FreeBSD 2.1.6 jgrosch@sirius.com | - John Warfin - | UNIX for the masses