Ubuntu Book by O'Reilly?

Michael Beattie mtbeedee at gmail.com
Thu May 12 20:13:05 UTC 2005


Ubuntu is really just a customization on top of Debian... if you dont
think a Debian book would do well, then I dont know why an Ubuntu one
would.  Additionally, with the relatively quick release cycle, it
would be out of date rather quickly.

Anyone is free to disagree though.

On 5/12/05, Tom Adelstein <adelste at yahoo.com> wrote:
> In the event you don't know, I write books and articles for O'Reilly and
> Associates. They've supported open source longer than any one. They
> publish the books that have the animals on them which you have probably
> seen:  http://nutshells.oreilly.com/
> 
> O'Reilly & Associates has an interest in releasing a book for Ubuntu
> users. While all Linux books sales have increased significantly in 2005,
> books on specific distributions like Fedora, Debian and JDS typically
> lag behind the market.
> 
> I argued that the Ubuntu project is not typical of other Linux
> distributions and a market exists for an Ubuntu book.
> 
> Without flaming this post, please, what do you think? Would an O'Reilly
> Book on Ubuntu have a following?
> 
> What kind of book would would people want? a newbie book, a book for
> experienced Linux users or somewhere in between?
> 
> I will let the editor know if this post gets any responses and from
> that, he can make a decision.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tom
> 
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