Ubuntu Book by O'Reilly?

Senectus . senectus at gmail.com
Fri May 13 01:53:11 UTC 2005


On 5/13/05, Brian Puccio <brian at brianpuccio.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 14:39 -0500, Tom Adelstein wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > 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.
> 
> I am an O'Reilly Safari subscriber, so I do read O'Reilly books a lot, I
> think they're amazing.  However, something that has always irked me
> about dead tree is timing.  A new Ubuntu release comes out every 6
> months.  Writing about Hoary now would lend itself to be obsolete in a
> very short while.
> 
> While I do agree that an Ubuntu book would do better then, for example
> "Linux from Scratch for Noobs", given Ubuntu's goal as a linux distro
> for people, I do have to ask how a book can keep up with something that
> changes so quick.
> 
> I have on my shelf a PHP book written for 4.1.  I have on my O'Reilly
> bookshelf a book on PHP 5.  Programming (or I guess in PHP's case,
> scripting) languages don't change nearly as fast as a book on Ubuntu
> would need to.
> 
> I realize not a whole lot changes between releases, so a book would
> still be mostly accurate.
> 
> In any event, good luck with writing it if this project does go forward,
> I'll be sure to add it to my shelf once a slot opens up.
> 

I agree 100% with this.. also I feel that O'Reilly tends to write for
higher skilled people.. and someone like the "For Dummies" crew might
be a better choice..

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