on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 11:53:46AM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck (mdaubenspeck@daubnet.tzo.com) wrote:
> Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more directly for
> Debian instead of just general linux?
My experience is there is no such. The O'Reilly book (McCarty) is a
disappointment. There's a reasonably "getting started" guide from Sams
(the small one, not the larger "Unleashed" or whaterver it is). Neither
is particularly advanced. The Debian project produced a volume about
two years ago but it's now quite dated.
Debian Policy should be mandetory reading for those who want to have a
solid understanding of Debian, the package management system, and
general file locations and rationales. You'll find it at:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
or
$ apt-get install debian-policy
$ zless /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.txt.gz
Otherwise, your traditional UNIX and GNU/Linux references will serve you
well.
Peace.
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