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 *
