Re: Tip: debian-handbook > Debian Administrator's Handbook
On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 09:45:04AM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> Preface: AFTER writing all this up, it occurred to me to perform an
> in-house email search to see if this had already been recently
> addressed. Only 26 references total in some ~3.5GB of emails so I'm
> going ahead and posting this as its own special highlight.
>
> KEY THOUGHTS: .deb package, online ebook, hard copy purchase.
>
> ~
>
Four or five of those were probably from me. I can't recommend this book
highly enough - this is really really good documentation.
[And with a free licence and redistrubutable]
>
> >From my Shoes in answer to the same "Is this book for me?",
> appearances are that it certainly couldn't hurt since it's presented
> by Debian via even its most basic of installs possible (debootstrap).
>
> Alternatively, that debian-handbook package download also points us to:
>
> https://debian-handbook.info/get/
>
> THAT page offers a *_CHOICE_* between reading an online ebook or
> retrieving it otherwise. Rightly or wrongly, my interpretation of that
> is that the second option MIGHT be presenting the possibility of a
> hard copy purchase via Lulu.com (but I'm not quite sure because that's
> out of my realm of #Life experiences).
>
> Personally, I remain a huge fan of a hard copy book in hand, primarily
> because computers occasionally become completely inoperable and thus
> so do any downloaded ebooks included within. Of note, though, is that
> I've seen the debian-handbook package upgrade several times in recent
> weeks which quickly outdates an in-hand hard copy. Yes/no, that's been
> nothing new to tech users for decades, but still, it was worth noting.
>
debian-handbook is the correct package. There is a hard copy book
available through Lulu.com by clicking through the link on Raph's site.
It seems incredibly expensive - but it's very worth it in that it is
well produced and very well bound. My copy was on loan to a workshop for a while
- I installed the .deb package on every workstation that was there.
> DISCLAIMER: If I have oopsied on which package ultimately installed
> those documents, my apologies in advance. If someone would please then
> specify the ultimately correct package name, that would be awesome.
>
> Happy Debian'ing!
>
> Cindy :)
>
> --
> Cindy-Sue Causey
> Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
>
> * runs with duct tape *
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