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Date:      Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:58:40 +0800
From:      Kevin Lo <kevlo@hello.com.tw>
To:        Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Amusing: LinuxCountry site runs on FreeBSD :)
Message-ID:  <37688E8F.C67AC3BC@hello.com.tw>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906161636160.26305-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>

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Brett Taylor wrote:

<snip>

> The reason there are so few FreeBSD books:
>
>         1)  because FreeBSD is derived from 4.4-BSD, any book on a BSD
>             Unix will apply (for most situations)
>
>         2)  because FreeBSD is typically used by experienced sys admins
>             whereas Linux has (or had originally) the college hacker;
>             the experienced admins already have books on BSD style unix
>
>         3)  no one, but Greg Lehey has written one;  Greg has asked (if
>             I recall a thread from maybe 2 years ago) O'Reilly if they'd
>             be interested and they said no

Hi, Brett,

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.
--
Kevin Lo                        | Linpus Technologies Inc.
kevinlo@linpus.com.tw           | http://www.linpus.com.tw




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