> >..you may want http://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/ , >details http://debian-handbook.info/about-the-book/ >
+1 for this, i just bought this book from the site in PDF format but will probably get the hardcopy. Coming from RHEL and Fedora land i was looking for a source based on Debian. this was the best i found. Pretty handy for me to hand as a reference. Includes installs through to configuring required services. Cheers, Nathan > Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:18:57 +0200 > From: a...@c2i.net > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: books on debian of a beginner nature? > > On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:32:54 -0400 (EDT), Karen wrote in message > <pine.bsf.4.64.1206131724530.50...@server1.shellworld.net>: > > > ahem, > > I think I said, but it may have been lost in the mayhem of ideas. > > 1. I seek a single book, one that can either be read in the standard > > fashion, it has pages, or b, exists as a single file that can be > > read entirely off line...think of say a word processor like > > wordperfect, or a plain text reader. > > ..uh-oh ;o), I thought you would prefer "and" over "or" between > the options. > > > as I have no debian system at all yet, and want this information > > both before that install takes place now, and available in a format > > that need not require an installation, I think the information below > > does not fit my request. > > Karen > > ..worst part of newbiedoc is its age, Etch was 5 years ago. > > ..you may want http://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/ , > details http://debian-handbook.info/about-the-book/ > > -- > ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen > ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... > Scenarios always come in sets of three: > best case, worst case, and just in case. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120614071857.77eb4...@celsius.lan >
