-.- Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 Old Price: 714 pages, $44.95 US, $69.95 CA, £31.95 UK http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cfreebsd/ New Price: .00 http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ The Complete FreeBSD - Now Completely Free What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. - Thomas Paine Complete FreeBSD Almost anyone who has spent serious time with the FreeBSD operating system has a copy of The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey (affectionately known as "Grog"). First published in 1996 under the title Installing and Using FreeBSD, this classic techie tome is now in its 4th edition. In the fast-moving world of software development, most books start to look dated after one or two years. The 4th edition was published in April 2003, and is now starting to get long in the tooth. Unfortunately, Greg is a busy man - too busy to continue updating his fine book (though he was nice enough to give me a few hours of his time to help me when I wrote this article). Faced with this dilemma, Greg has made the unusual decision to offer his book for download (also available from here) under the Creative Commons License. This allows the author to continue owning the copyright while sharing non-commercial copies with all and sundry. Although it was extremely nice of Mr. Lehey to do this, there is one catch - the book remains out-of-date. In order to deal with this issue, Greg is asking for volunteers to help with the updating. In keeping with the tradition of the BSD license, contributors can't expect money for this effort, but instead recognition (in this case, in the book's preface)... http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=current Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 Wow, that's a really interesting idea. I love the open source mindset for just this reason. I hope it works out for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-.- Posted March 5, 2006 Author Share Posted March 5, 2006 Wow, that's a really interesting idea. I love the open source mindset for just this reason. I hope it works out for him. Me too i wish him the best of luck. I thought it may be of interest here since Darwin and OS X was related to BSD... i think. It was just a few weeks to a month ago that i read the O Reily book for Debian Linux was now downloadable for free, now this, makes me wonder how many others may be like that. They have a reputation for being very good manuals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Thats great. I like to browse the source. max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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