Dan Easley wrote: Responding to option 2: I've terminated the book project, at least my involvement in it is over. My publisher and the contributors have known this for a few months, I apologize for not announcing the fact earlier, but as you can see from my updates to http://linux-sound.org I've not exactly been keeping up. Various reasons prompted my decision, family concerns being the most influential. Re: book structure: As far as I'm concerned, go ahead, use it, it's just a chapter succession. Lots of new headings should be added anyway. By the way, I'm fairly certain that all my stuff published by LJ and O'Reilly still belongs to me. They're pretty decent about it, all rights revert to the author after a certain period, a nice nod from publishers towards reusability. Anyway, again as far as I'm concerned the community can assemble and revise that stuff as it sees fit. And let's face it, folks, http://linux-sound.org and its mirrors are doomed. I'm so tired of the maintenance that I'm just not doing any at all. I'd like to see the community take over the lists and perhaps use them as bases for a wiki catalog of Linux sound and music software. Meanwhile I plan for one more update this month, then I'm unlikely to continue working with it any longer. I'm sorry but too many other important factors in my life require my attention now. Writing another book and maintaining linux-sound.org are unfortunately excluded. I'm not disappearing, I just can't manage those particular projects. Best regards, dp

Responding to option 2: I've terminated the book project, at least my involvement in it is over. My publisher and the contributors have known this for a few months, I apologize for not announcing the fact earlier, but as you can see from my updates to http://linux-sound.org I've not exactly been keeping up. Various reasons prompted my decision, family concerns being the most influential. Re: book structure: As far as I'm concerned, go ahead, use it, it's just a chapter succession. Lots of new headings should be added anyway. By the way, I'm fairly certain that all my stuff published by LJ and O'Reilly still belongs to me. They're pretty decent about it, all rights revert to the author after a certain period, a nice nod from publishers towards reusability. Anyway, again as far as I'm concerned the community can assemble and revise that stuff as it sees fit. And let's face it, folks, http://linux-sound.org and its mirrors are doomed. I'm so tired of the maintenance that I'm just not doing any at all. I'd like to see the community take over the lists and perhaps use them as bases for a wiki catalog of Linux sound and music software. Meanwhile I plan for one more update this month, then I'm unlikely to continue working with it any longer. I'm sorry but too many other important factors in my life require my attention now. Writing another book and maintaining linux-sound.org are unfortunately excluded. I'm not disappearing, I just can't manage those particular projects. Best regards, dp