[headsup] update of publications page

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:21:27PM +0100, Josef El-Rayes wrote:
> Marc Fonvieille <blackend at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 06:07:20PM +0100, Josef El-Rayes wrote:
> > It's just the Books part, right? not the complete FreeBSD related
> > publications page?
> 
> yes, i thought it does not really make sense to keep the cds
> and magazines, at least on the frontpage. if you think
> i should add bsd magazines then i will, although i am not
> aware of a pure bsd magazine (daemonnews seems to be dead,
> at least the printed version).
>
> > Why not keeping old books cause even if they are not printed anymore,
> > one can still find them as second hand, and I see old book covers in the
> > same way I see old FreeBSD CDROMS pictures...
> 
> hmm, i am not really sure, what about some kind of archive page?
>

About the books, we must keep track of them for many reasons:

- A book is not like a newspaper, it's an "useful tool", even if it's
  outdated/out of print, there is always an interesting thing inside...
  A book is something you keep.
- It's still possible to find old books ("second hand" shops, etc.)
- When you run old version of FreeBSD (many people still run 2.2.8 for
  example) and old book can be useful.
- When you do not speak english well and if an old book in your
  language existed, it can be interesting to know it...
- It's also FreeBSD history, if FreeBSD.org does not keep track of them
  who will do it? and in the case we don't do it, so why keeping 2001
  news archives for example?
- etc.

About the CD covers, well it's FreeBSD history as well, maybe some
people would like to see cover of FreeBSD 2.0 CDROM for example

> > The list of book should be sorted (the 1st book is far to be the best
> > book:)).
> 
> What about sorting it following english alphabet?
> 
[...]

Yes, it's what I meant; don't forget if you put unsorted lists of thing
people would think the 1st one is the "supported" one.

Marc
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