Re: Opinions on some Debian books?
This past Sunday I was getting desperate for a good book on Debian in a
hurry. I drove 60 miles to the nearest Barns and Nobles store and found one
out of print book that I had already downloaded on the web. I found 6 real
nice books on Fedora about 700 pages with cd's in each. The number one cd
was no good at all. I am currently using the fedora book along with the
downloaded Debian book and between the two am beginning to understand How to
set up and run Debian.
My point is why would Barns and Noble not have Debian books . I
complained to the manager and his answer was he didn't know why but he would
find out and E-mail me. Nothing yet???
If this is standard practice for them it is not good PR for debian. If
you go in a store and they don't have Debian books Fuss at'em
Doug
----- Original Message -----
From: "s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: Opinions on some Debian books?
> Incoming from Adam Funk:
> >
> > Aaron Van Couwenberghe: Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed, Sams, 1999.
>
> Unless this one's been updated recently, I'd advise against it.
> It's way out of date, and what's there is better covered elsewhere.
> Except if you're a raw newbie and buying a second-hand copy, I'd try
> something else first.
>
> Book buying is turning into quite an art these days. When I read
> "Practical Unix & Internet Security - 2nd Ed." by Garfinkel &
> Spafford, I loved it; a rollicking good read cover to cover.
>
> Recently, a friend picked up the latest updated version and was mostly
> disappointed. She said it generally consisted of text from the
> earlier version, backed up with (eg.), "Reports suggest this is no
> longer true in modern Unix." Bleah.
>
>
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