Re: Opinions on some Debian books?
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:05:51PM -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote:
> 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
Two points:
1) Look at http://www.debian.org/doc/
2) The competition at debian.org pretty much kills the dead tree book
market, IMHO.
And if you have a problem with interpretation of something in .../doc/, ask
on this list. Look particularly at Policy docs to get a feel for Debian self
image. These are people who 'sweat the details' so that when they use Debian,
they don't have to deal with stupid surprises.
Just a user.
Paul
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