[FM Discuss] FSF Sprint

[laurent at sesawe.net]

When it comes to using command line, I often use the O'reilly book "Unix
 in a Nutshell" from Arnold Robbins.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565924277/
Maybe your credibility with O'Reilly would open some doors to re-use
parts of this good book (although it is probably a bit too thorough for
your 'Introduction to the Command Line')

Laurent


adam hyde wrote:
> hey
> 
> On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 21:05 -0500, Daniel Clark wrote:
>> 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?
>>
> 
> we havent tried this yet. the sad situation of non-free texts about free
> software means that a lot of texts die on the vine like this :(
> 
> do you know Jon Lasser? Perhaps if FM and the FSF made an approach to
> him he might be interested? 
> 
> adam
> 
>> 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".
>>
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