On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 03:54:24PM +0000, Sergey Lyubka wrote: > Lions wrote a book far long ago, and it is still worth reading. > Why? > Because he didn't just show the code, he showed the concepts.
Yes, this would be nice. But there's a reason why that book is such a standout: that sort of writing is very difficult to do. > Is it possible to get frosen version, say, 5.0 - current, > and describe it? I think it is. Many things may become obsolete, > but the knowledge I'm talking about will be revealed. Such book > must paint a solid and complete picture of FreeBSD kernel. You can write all you want, but if a publisher won't print it, you're out of luck. Publishers are very leery of things that are obsolete before they're printed. I'm not saying it *can't* be done, but it would be difficult to get a publisher to bite. That's why we have the developers' handbook online, specifically so things can be updated quickly. And it's difficult to get more text for that; the people who can write that text are busy writing code. ==ml -- Michael Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.nostarch.com/abs_bsd.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
