Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 12:32:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com (Stephen Roome) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Orielly book Message-ID: <199910141632.MAA53620@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPX.4.10.9910141710520.21065-100000@mothra.bri.hp.com> from Stephen Roome at "Oct 14, 1999 5:17: 6 pm"
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I sent them a proposal. They bounced it. I get the impression that they'd need someone who can write higher-level stuff. A FreeBSD Newbus Device Drivers book would almost certainly succeed. A FreeBSD Generic Servers book won't. Just IMHO, reading between various lines. ==ml > I was reading the news stuff from the advocacy site and I wondered if... > > Has anyone approaced orielly about doing a book ? > > Tim O'Reilly seems very interested in the idea from the website. > > Would the handbook and FAQ and some of Greg's excellent books (although that > judgement is based on word of mouth, as I only remember the book that came with > 2.1.5) combine to make a complete O'Reilly guide. > > It's not that I didn't like the Complete FreeBSD or whatever it was called, but > the point is (IMHO) that an O'Reilly book would really give FreeBSD proper > "proffessional and serious" status. > > Or something like that. > > Steve Roome > > P.S. This was just an idea... please don't flame me. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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