Re: Why are there no latest books written for Debian systems?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:45:54 +0530, surreal wrote:

> I wanted to buy a book about Debian, I found that the last book written
> was way back in 2005 by Martin F.
> Krafft<http://www.amazon.com/Martin-F.-Krafft/e/B001K892PK/
ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1271826559&sr=8-1>
> 
> 
> After 2005, Etch and Lenny were released.
> 
> In 5 years its surprising no one thought to write a book specially for
> debian lenny or etch ?? Why? 

(...)

There are updated books, but not all are written in English language:

http://www.debian.org/doc/books

In fact, before installing Debian I bought and read a printed book on my 
language (Spanish), easily available at any megastore or bookshop here in 
Spain.

True is that is not a very common situation. 

There are many other distros that lack for printed handbooks and guides 
aimed to newbies or starters and, when available, mostly are written in 
English, so I was very surprised (and delighted) to be able to buy a book 
for Debian -wrote in Spanish- without much effort :-)

Debian own guides and docs are also great and translated into many 
languges and can always be printed.

http://www.debian.org/doc/index.en.html

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón