Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:52:54 -0700 From: elazich@AlaskaAir.com To: grog@lemis.com Cc: steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com, mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Orielly book Message-ID: <msg34862.thr-2dd29edc.84746b8e@alaskaair.com> References: <199910141632.MAA53620@blackhelicopters.org> <Pine.HPX.4.10.9910141744380.21065-100000@mothra.bri.hp.com> <19991015150724.07602@mojave.lemis.com>
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Nothing against AW (they publich some fine books that are on my
bookshelf Stevens' series for example are invaluable) but I'd vote for
O'Reilly. ORA is who I think of when my thoughts turn to where to get
help on specific topics and in my mind that's what they are known for.
Eli
grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) writes:
>On Thursday, 14 October 1999 at 17:47:55 +0100, Stephen Roome wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Michael Lucas wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> AFAIK the orielly books are fairly technical generally, maybe for
>Linux they
>> can afford to produce a couple of simple "here's a getting started
>guide" type
>> books, but probably not for FreeBSD.
>Well, I'm an O'Reilly author ("Porting UNIX Software"), and I
>disagree. I'd say that, for example, Addison-Wesley are more
>technical.
>The real problem with O'Reilly is that they had a disaster with the
>4.4BSD manuals, and it took a long time for them to realise that this
>wasn't BSD's fault.
>> Bearing in mind they'll want to make some money on it, it's probably
>> fair, however it would be in FreeBSD's interests to probably put
>> this high priority.
>OK, for the sake of discussion, which publisher do you people prefer?
>Addison Wesley or O'Reilly? I'm also discussing a book with AW, and I
>could do with some input.
>Greg
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