Ubuntu Book by O'Reilly?

audriusb at homelan.lt audriusb at homelan.lt
Fri May 13 02:56:25 UTC 2005


Quoting Michael Beattie <mtbeedee at gmail.com>:

I support this position:  UBUNTU changes very fast and the only variant that may
be kept  on date is to publish the book on WEB. We have such book about Debian,
differences between Debian and UBUNTU may be published there.

Gediminas Bukauskas

> 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 would be out of date rather quickly.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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