On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, alex wrote:
> Can someone tell me what they consider to be a good up to date Debian
> book for a beginner, one that doesn't assume that the reader has a
> background in Unix or DOS? Is there such a book?
>
>
> Where are the books about Debian? I found dozens of up to date books
> for RedHat and just one out of date book for Debian (O'Reilly) in the 4
> large bookstores that I visited. It's not that the Debian books were
> sold out, there just don't to be many published.
There is stuff on the web. Download it and print it out. That is what I
did.
Specifically, there is Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/LInux (2001) by Dale
Scheetz. This is quite nice, but spends a lot of time with installation
stuff. It is available as a Debian package, dwarfs-debian-guide in
unstable.
Also, there is the Debian GNU/Linux Guide by John Goerzen and Ossama
Othman. This is available as the Debian package debian-guide.
As far as not specifically Debian oriented books go there is the "Linux
Rute Users Tutorial and Exposition" by Paul Sheer. This one even has its
own website, htp://rute.sourceforge.net. It is a pretty detailed piece of
work.
For bonafide printed books, there is of course the famous Running Linux,
but I also like Mark Sobell's "A Practical Guide to Linux" (1997, but has
been carefully written so as not to date easily), and "Linux: Installation
Configuration and Use" by Michael Kofler (nice book, but published in 1999
so getting a little long in the tooth. Still useful, though).
Faheem.
