[orca-list] A Book for Debian/Debian-based Systems Users

[Robert Cole <rkcole72984 gmail com>]

Hello, everyone.


NOTE: To any list moderators,

If you feel that this message is too off-topic for this list, I will 
understand if you remove it, and I sincerely apologize in any time lost 
and any inconvenience encountered in doing so.

I am sorry for this, as I know that it is mostly off-topic, but I know 
that there are a lot of Ubuntu users here on this list, as well as some 
Debian users. I have been tracking the workings of a free book entitled 
"The Debian Administrator's Handbook" for quite some time now since I 
saw a post concerning it on a Linux Mint blog many months ago.

This book was originally written in the French language by two Debian 
developers and was sold commercially. The authors felt that the book 
should be liberated, and so a campaign was started to liberate the book 
and translate it into English, and it appears that other translations 
are being set into motion. According to a blog post [1] on the book's 
page, the book is available for purchase in printed form, is available 
to read freely online [2], and is available as a free download in three 
formats (direct links are in the footnotes): PDF [3], EPUB [4], and 
Mobipocket [5]. If you are running Debian Unstable, you can get the book 
by running the following command:

sudo apt-get install debian-handbook

This book has been released under the following licenses:
-GPL-2+
-CC-BY-SA 3.0

As I mentioned earlier, I am very sorry for this off-topic post, but 
being an intermediate user of Ubuntu, I know that this book will be very 
helpful to me and any others here on this list who use Debian or a 
derivative who want to know how to more effectively use their system.

I hope that you find this message a help and a blessing.

Please keep in mind that the servers on which this book is located are 
receiving a LOT of traffic, so download times *could be* slow.

Take care, and best wishes.

[1] 
http://debian-handbook.info/2012/the-debian-administrators-handbook-is-available/
[2] http://static.debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/
[3] PDF: http://debian-handbook.info/download/stable/debian-handbook.pdf
[4] EPUB: http://debian-handbook.info/download/stable/debian-handbook.epub
[5] Mobipocket: 
http://debian-handbook.info/download/stable/debian-handbook.mobi