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daniel replied on May 03, 2008 11:24 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

I am very glad that you have decided to update the book to Leopard. It is one of the best books about OS X I know, and I will purchase the Leopard version asap.

ALbert replied on April 11, 2008 12:22 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

We need the book! At least I do. ASAP please

Brian Jepson replied on April 09, 2008 13:42 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

GreggJensen,

I'm thinking late Summer or early Fall (August-September, basically). We're going to work on getting some chapters up into Rough Cuts (http://www.oreilly.com/roughcuts) in the next month or so.

- Brian

GreggJensen replied on March 26, 2008 21:19 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

OK, just purchased a Macbook Pro yesterday. Since this is my first mac I have some playing around that I need to do, but very shortly I will be wanting to look under the hood. I know you probably can't put a specific date on a release, but could it be narrowed to a quarter or maybe a "no later then" timeframe?

Brian Jepson replied on February 28, 2008 16:53 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

Thanks, zuneless! We just started work on it, and we're going to get it out as quickly as we can!

zuneless replied on February 27, 2008 21:56 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

Please, please, please!!! I want "Mac OS X Leopard for UNIX Geeks"!! I bought the first two, and a Leopard version is definitely in order!

Brian Jepson replied on February 08, 2008 12:53 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

lutzhell,
I think you'll get some mileage out of the current edition. While a number of things have changed, there are many things that have changed slightly or not at all. What topics in particular are you interested in learning from the current edition?

lutzhell replied on February 07, 2008 11:04 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

Yesss that's good news. I hope it will not take too much time because i desperately need it! Would it make sense to buy the Tiger edition anyway?

Rich Rosen replied on February 05, 2008 19:27 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

Brian, that's essentially what each new edition of the book seems to have done, and that has worked well up to Tiger. The book is already well-organized and structured, and updating in place with new information will all by itself make the book extremely useful. The coverage of Spotlight, for example, in the Tiger version slipped in very well and provided nice coverage of the topic. I'm really looking forward to this new edition! I've found previous editions to be great tools for UNIX-minded people who love their Macs but want to take advantage of their UNIXian nature. :-)

GreggJensen replied on February 05, 2008 19:10 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

Ah yes, exactly what I am looking for!! I now feel a lot more comfortable with my decision to purchase a Macbook Pro.

Brian Jepson replied on February 05, 2008 19:04 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

Thanks, numpty. Gregg: we're going to keep the table of contents essentially the same, and update everything for Leopard.

numpty replied on February 05, 2008 18:52 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

Here's the TOC from the Tiger edition:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macxti...

GreggJensen replied on February 05, 2008 18:42 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

Great news indeed. I will be purchasing my first Apple product (Macbook Pro) soon, and coming from the Unix/Linux world I would assume that I would really want to have a book like this. Most of the topics that I have read for the Mac are focused on the user interface experience. How much would a book like this cover? Will this cover file system structure, system start up files and other coverage that would be familiar to a Unix System Administrator?

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Rich Rosen marked one of Brian Jepson's replies in O'Reilly Media as useful. Brian Jepson replied to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"". Rich Rosen and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Brian Jepson replied on February 05, 2008 15:12 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

Thanks, Rich! Your opinions definitely did make a difference--it's helpful to know that there are eager readers. As far as a release date, we don't have an ETA yet, but I suspect it will be within the next 6 months. We will be doing a shortcut release before then: http://shortcuts.oreilly.com/

Rich Rosen replied on February 05, 2008 14:41 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

Thanks, Brian! That's really good news. Nice to know our opinions make a difference. (At least we like to think they do.) I'm looking forward to this new edition. Do we have an approximate publication date?

RR

Brian Jepson replied on February 05, 2008 14:20 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

After some more consideration, we have decided to do a new edition of this book. I'm one of the co-authors, and I'm really excited to be working on it!

numpty replied on February 04, 2008 22:48 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

Does seem kind of incredible that it wouldn't be updated for Leopard.

Rich Rosen replied on February 01, 2008 16:53 to the question "Is there going to be a new (Leopard) edition of "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks?"" in O'Reilly Media:

Why not? The changes on the UNIX side of Leopard are more radical in many ways than the ones associated with the advent of Tiger, which did get its own new edition. A new edition is certainly warranted.

I have both the original and Panther editions, and have found them very useful, but I never got the Tiger edition. A friend of mine did, and I noticed there were significant enhancements that were worthwhile, but Leopard was on the horizon and I decided to wait for Leopard's edition of this book to come out.

Is this just not one of the better selling Leopard books? I can't see a good reason for not updating this really useful book.