on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:51:06PM -0500, Eric Brooks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 05:52:24PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > How many Debian books is there ?
> I don't know how many debian books exist. There are quite a few Linux
> administration books out there that have
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 05:52:24PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> How many Debian books is there ?
I don't know how many debian books exist. There are quite a few Linux
administration books out there that have information that pertain to
Debian as well.
> I'm wondering if you guys can suggest one
ramsubs wrote:
> The book's back cover indicates Reader Level is "Beginner to Advanced".
Unfortunately, Debian is not for beginners. Use Mandrake,
as long as you do not encounter problems! (See the Debian
FAQ for more detail). In my place, there are *many* "Debian
Server" maintainers who are u
> > Also, he talked of installing KDE using task-KDE. But there is no
> > Task-KDE!! KDE was never included in Debian > 2.0 (if I remember
> > correctly), and the accompanying CD is at 2.2R2. He's really
> > out-of-whack.
>
> That's unfair. task-kde is available for potato from kde.debian.net, and
Linux Cookbook
http://www.linuxfreak.org/post.php/08/11/2001/119.html
ramsubs wrote:
> > > > Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more directly
> for
> > > > Debian instead of just general linux?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > I have a book called Debian Unleashed that is excellent. Alth
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:04:44AM +0800, ramsubs wrote:
> Also, he talked of installing KDE using task-KDE. But there is no
> Task-KDE!! KDE was never included in Debian > 2.0 (if I remember
> correctly), and the accompanying CD is at 2.2R2. He's really
> out-of-whack.
That's unfair. task-kde is
> > > Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more directly
for
> > > Debian instead of just general linux?
> > >
> > >
> > I have a book called Debian Unleashed that is excellent. Although, I
> > bought it some time ago and it came with 2.1. See if there is a new
edition
> > for 2.2
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I have GNU/Debian Bible (based on potato) and another from Unleashed
(called Debian 2.1,
I have GNU/Debian Bible (based on potato) and another from Unleashed (called
Debian 2.1, or so I think).
I think the first is a fine book but for advanced users it looses for the
latter. Although Unleashed's a bit dated, I'm sticking with it.
Anyway, you can see comments on these to books in am
On Sunday 14 October 2001 16:53, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more directly
> for Debian instead of just general linux?
As a newbie of two and a half months I found one book "Debian GNU/Linux
2.1" From SAMS (ISDN 0672317001) but that 2.1 bit
on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 11:53:46AM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more directly for
> Debian instead of just general linux?
My experience is there is no such. The O'Reilly book (McCarty) is a
disappointment. There
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Subject: Re: Debian books
> > Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more directly for
> > Debian instead of just general linux?
> >
> >
> I have a book called Debian Unleashed that is excellent. Although, I
> bought it some ti
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 02:59:59PM -0500, Emerson Falcon wrote:
> > > Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more directly for
> > > Debian instead of just general linux?
> > I have a book called Debian Unleashed that is excellent. Although, I
> > bought it some time ago and it
> > Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more directly for
> > Debian instead of just general linux?
> >
> >
> I have a book called Debian Unleashed that is excellent. Although, I
> bought it some time ago and it came with 2.1. See if there is a new edition
> for 2.2. Thi
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 11:53:46AM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more directly for
> Debian instead of just general linux?
>
>
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On Sunday 14 October 2001 3:53 pm, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> Does anyone have suggestions of helpful books that are more
> directly for Debian instead of just general linux?
There's the O'Reilly one but it's really only for people who are just
starting to use Debian ...
http://www.sh
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 dat
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:45:10AM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> "Running Linux" for instance, tells you that to configure your TCP/IP
> address, you should modify the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 file. At least on my
> Debian box, that's completely wrong - I don't even have an rc.d
> directory, let alone an
> 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?
As a couple of people have mentioned already, most of the good
documentation is online. Some folks als
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:14:25AM -0400, 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?
I wouldn't worry about getting a Debian-specific bo
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:14:25AM -0400, 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?
Most of the interesting literature is available onl
>
> Mark Wagnon wrote:
> >
> > Hi all-
> >
> > I'm relatively new to Debian (just migrated from S.u.S.E.) and was
> > wondering if anyone knows of any books that have a Debian slant.
> > I'd like to know things like is there a debian command equivalent to
> > rpm -q with rpm-based distributions
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 05:54:41PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> I'm relatively new to Debian (just migrated from S.u.S.E.) and was
> wondering if anyone knows of any books that have a Debian slant.
> I'd like to know things like is there a debian command equivalent to
> rpm -q with rpm-
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 05:54:41PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> One thing that I can't figure out is how to set up a color ls. I copied
> a custom DIR_COLORS file to /etc, and created an alias for ls with
> the --color option but some of my files, namely those that are archived,
> compressed,etc.,
Mark Wagnon wrote:
>
> Hi all-
>
> I'm relatively new to Debian (just migrated from S.u.S.E.) and was
> wondering if anyone knows of any books that have a Debian slant.
> I'd like to know things like is there a debian command equivalent to
> rpm -q with rpm-based distributions and any other littl
"Dave Cinege" wrote:
> This IS NOT acurate. Off the top of my head:
>
> everything init.d
> rc0.d -rc6.d
> ppp
> adduser, start-stop-daemon., as well as other scripts things
> fs layout
What makes you think all that list is debian centric (no, that's
not a flame-bait :))?
The fs stuff is, some
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote:
> >Well, it seems to me that once debian is INSTALLED, you administrate it
> >just like any other linux, unix or *nix system. There are a few
>
> This IS NOT acurate. Off the top of my head:
>
> everything init.d
> rc0.d -rc6.d
Ok. I see your poin
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:15:41 -0400 (EDT), Will Lowe wrote:
>Well, it seems to me that once debian is INSTALLED, you administrate it
>just like any other linux, unix or *nix system. There are a few
>quirks, but it really isn't possible to say that one *nix is
>_standard_, so you might say
Well, it seems to me that once debian is INSTALLED, you administrate it
just like any other linux, unix or *nix system. There are a few
quirks, but it really isn't possible to say that one *nix is
_standard_, so you might say they're _all_ unstandard.
While I can understand that
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