On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Kurt Wall wrote:

> Sign me up for a copy... What's the (intended) pub date? Solais
> Press, I presume? Congratulations.

Thanks! It will be available this Summer - doubtless I'll make
an announcement here and comp.unix.programmer - and yes, it will
be on the Sun Microsystems Press label.

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Rich Teer wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Dave Littell wrote:
>
>
>>Nice tease, Rich! Please tell us more - when is it due, will bn.com
>>have it, etc.?
>
>
> As I type, the final (1160 page) draft is about to go out for
> technical reviews. After that, it's copy editting and then I
> generate the final camera ready PostScript. It will be available
> from all good book sellers sometime this Summer. The info that's
> available about it on bn.com and amazon.com is a bit out of date.
>
> I think of it as an up to date and much expanded version of
> Rich Stevens' excellent APUE, with a Solaris bias. It will
> be appearing under the Sun Microsystems Press banner, which
> is an imprint of Prentice-Hall.
>
> As Scott would say, stay tuned for more details!
>

Awesome! I'm looking forward to this one! Will it be aimed at
Solaris 9 or 10? I guess the summer timeframe is when 10 is to be
let out of the barn, so I was wondering if your book will include
topics like dtrace, etc.


Thanks,
Dave

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Dave Littell wrote:

> Awesome! I'm looking forward to this one! Will it be aimed at

I hope it lives up to your expectations. The feedback I've received
so far has been very encouraging, so fingers crossed...

> Solaris 9 or 10? I guess the summer timeframe is when 10 is to be

I cover stuff up to (and including) Solaris 9 12/02, which unfortuanely
means that goodies like libumem and stuff in S10 had to be left out.
One of the problems with writing a book like this is that you have to
draw the line somewhere, otherwise it'll never be finished! I did
try to squeeze in a mention about libumem, but it's not a small subject
that could be covered in a page or two. Rather than covering it poorly,
I decided to leave it out.

Besides, I need to save something for the 2nd and subsequent editions. :-)

> let out of the barn, so I was wondering if your book will include

S10 still hasn't started its Beta program, so judging by the length
of the S9 Beta, S10 won't hit FCS until nearly the end of this year.
So S9 will be the "current" release when my book hits the streets,
which is nice considering how long it's taken me to write (about 3
years)!

> topics like dtrace, etc.

Alas no, for the reasons above.

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Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:

> S10 still hasn't started its Beta program, so judging by the length
> of the S9 Beta, S10 won't hit FCS until nearly the end of this year.

Speaking of Solaris 10, current sun systems news (posted at
comp.sys.sun.announce) and available from http://sun.systemnews.com/, has
an interesting entry for Solaris 10 (item SN#12269):

Sun previewed the Solaris[TM] 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), the
upcoming version of its OS to be available later this year for
systems based on x86 UltraSPARC[R] microprocessors.


I wonder what that x86 UltraSPARC[R] microprocessor is they are talking
about :-) You can check the fill article at
http://sun.systemnews.com/72/2/news/index.shtml#12269

Bye, Dragan


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On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:28:46 GMT, Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Dave Littell wrote:
>
>> Awesome! I'm looking forward to this one! Will it be aimed at
>
> I hope it lives up to your expectations. The feedback I've received
> so far has been very encouraging, so fingers crossed...
>
>> Solaris 9 or 10? I guess the summer timeframe is when 10 is to be
>
> I cover stuff up to (and including) Solaris 9 12/02, which unfortuanely
> means that goodies like libumem and stuff in S10 had to be left out.
> One of the problems with writing a book like this is that you have to
> draw the line somewhere, otherwise it'll never be finished! I did
> try to squeeze in a mention about libumem, but it's not a small subject
> that could be covered in a page or two. Rather than covering it poorly,
> I decided to leave it out.
>
> Besides, I need to save something for the 2nd and subsequent editions. :-)

Alternatively, you could have a web site with updates (and errata) which
would get rolled into later printings/editions.

A bientot
Paul
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Surgery: ennobled Gerald.

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Paul Floyd wrote:

> Alternatively, you could have a web site with updates (and errata) which
> would get rolled into later printings/editions.

There will be a book web site with an Errata section, but don't
plan to have an update section at this stage.

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dragan_usenet@gmx.net writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|Speaking of Solaris 10, current sun systems news (posted at
|comp.sys.sun.announce) and available from http://sun.systemnews.com/, has
|an interesting entry for Solaris 10 (item SN#12269):
|
| Sun previewed the Solaris[TM] 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), the
| upcoming version of its OS to be available later this year for
| systems based on x86 UltraSPARC[R] microprocessors.
|
|
|I wonder what that x86 UltraSPARC[R] microprocessor is they are talking
|about :-)

The one you get when your conversion to HTML software doesn't properly
translate "&" to "&amp;" perhaps?

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Alan Coopersmith <alanc@alum.calberkeley.org> writes:

> dragan_usenet@gmx.net writes in comp.unix.solaris:
> |Speaking of Solaris 10, current sun systems news (posted at
> |comp.sys.sun.announce) and available from http://sun.systemnews.com/, has
> |an interesting entry for Solaris 10 (item SN#12269):
> |
> | Sun previewed the Solaris[TM] 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), the
> | upcoming version of its OS to be available later this year for
> | systems based on x86 UltraSPARC[R] microprocessors.
> |
> |
> |I wonder what that x86 UltraSPARC[R] microprocessor is they are talking
> |about :-)
>
> The one you get when your conversion to HTML software doesn't properly
> translate "&" to "&amp;" perhaps?
>

My thoughts as well. It however did surprise me that the web page also
contained the same error.

Thanks Alan.

Bye, Dragan

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In article <ToudnSq8qqHUFazd4p2dnA@speakeasy.net>,
Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com> wrote:
>Sign me up for a copy... What's the (intended) pub date? Solais

It can be pre-ordered on amazon.com.
<URL:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0201750392>

John
groenveld@acm.org

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, John D Groenveld wrote:

> In article <ToudnSq8qqHUFazd4p2dnA@speakeasy.net>,
> Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> >Sign me up for a copy... What's the (intended) pub date? Solais
>
> It can be pre-ordered on amazon.com.
> <URL:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0201750392>

Careful - the info on Amazon is out of date, vis a vis the
size and price. I suggest that interested people wait until
availability is officially announced - which won't be too far
away now, as I have just (yesterday) finished the final draft! :-)

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