Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books

[gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On 11/12/23 03:38, Marco Moock wrote:
> Am 12.11.2023 um 01:35:25 Uhr schrieb Timothy M Butterworth:
>
> > I have been looking for commercial books written about Debian and
> > there is very little selection. I am considering writing an updated
> > Debian GNU/Linux Bible for Bookworm/Trixie. Before I started writing
> > it I was wondering if anyone would even be interested in buying a
> > copy of it?
>
> I don't think book are a good way to teach stuff that changes. A wiki
> (maybe with paid access, like RedHat does) is much more better than a
> book that can't be updated and will be mostly useless with the next
> release because beginner don't know which parts are still entirely
> adaptable and which aren't.
>
> .
+100 Marco. Books are for physics that don't change. And a book about 
bookworm and the upcoming trixie will be out of date before trixie is 6 
months old.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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