Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 16:13:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com Cc: Kevin Lo <kevlo@hello.com.tw>, Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD books (was: Amusing: LinuxCountry site runs on FreeBSD :)) Message-ID: <19990620161327.G6820@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990617101533.A60003@ontario.mooseriver.com>; from Josef Grosch on Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 10:15:33AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906161636160.26305-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> <37688E8F.C67AC3BC@hello.com.tw> <19990617160147.L9893@freebie.lemis.com> <376928B4.B0D91BC4@hello.com.tw> <19990617101533.A60003@ontario.mooseriver.com>
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On Thursday, 17 June 1999 at 10:15:33 -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 12:56:20AM +0800, Kevin Lo wrote: >> Greg Lehey wrote: >> >>> On Thursday, 17 June 1999 at 13:58:40 +0800, Kevin Lo wrote: >>>> Brett Taylor wrote: > > [ DELETED ] > >>>> I saw the O'Reilly book catalog last week, it will publish the book >>>> "FreeBSD in a Nutshell". I don't know whether it's true or not. >>> >>> This isn't the book we were talking about a year ago. I did a search >>> for "FreeBSD" on the O'Reilly web site, and this is all I found (at >>> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prkunix/author.html): >>> >>> Prior to joining O'Reilly & Associates as UNIX system administrator, >>> Nathan Patwardhan was a software developer and system administrator >>> for Banta Integrated Media in Cambridge, MA. When not hacking Perl >>> or advocating FreeBSD and Linux to his friends, coworkers, >>> relatives, and other folks who don't know UNIX from Munich, Nathan >>> is an avid music collector. >>> >>> The reference was to a Perl book. Maybe you could post your URL. >> >> Well, I sent Ben(who is a manager in O'Reilly publisher in Taiwan) >> an email to confirm this news. He said this book will be publish on July, >> but it's a Chinese version ONLY. > > > ARRRRGGG! What is it with Tim O'Reilly and FreeBSD? China and Taiwan is not > a very large market for us. Yet. In fact, China is one of the most UNIX-oriented countries around. That's why I spend so much time there. Wait a few years and it could easily overtake Japan. > Japan is a _HUGE_ market for FreeBSD, so why is O'Reilly bring out a > Chinese language version instead of a Japanese or English version. Nonetheless, it does sound strange to me. > If this is correct, this makes little sense. We, the FreeBSD > community, need to bring out our own version of "FreeBSD in a > nutshell". Of course, we can't use that title. Yes, that's one of the things I've been thinking of doing. How about "The essence of FreeBSD"? Or "The essential FreeBSD"? 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-questions" in the body of the message
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