[FM Discuss] FSF Sprint

[Daniel Clark]

adam hyde wrote:
> I was thinking the initial sprint could be the authoritative
> 'Introduction to the Command Line'...this way we can really put to use
> the gathering of unix geeks that will be there. 

The best book I've seen on this topic, and using *nix in general, is
"Think Unix" - http://www.tux.org/~lasser/think-unix/ - unfortunatly it
is (a) non-free and (b) hasn't had a new printing since 2001.

Have there been any instances yet of successfully getting authors to
free material that's probably no longer making much money for them, for
the purposes of enabling continuing updates?

IMHO it would be a great base to expand from; but even if not, I
encourage people to take a look at it (at their local public libraries,
of course ;-) for ideas regarding how to present the command line and
*nix in general in terms of history, concepts and memes instead of "do X
to get Y result".

-- 
Daniel JB Clark   | Sys Admin, Free Software Foundation
pobox.com/~dclark | http://www.fsf.org/about/staff#danny

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