On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:05:51PM -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote: > This past Sunday I was getting desperate for a good book on Debian in a > hurry. I drove 60 miles to the nearest Barns and Nobles store and found one > out of print book that I had already downloaded on the web. I found 6 real > nice books on Fedora about 700 pages with cd's in each. The number one cd > was no good at all. I am currently using the fedora book along with the > downloaded Debian book and between the two am beginning to understand How to > set up and run Debian. > My point is why would Barns and Noble not have Debian books . I > complained to the manager and his answer was he didn't know why but he would > find out and E-mail me. Nothing yet??? > If this is standard practice for them it is not good PR for debian. If > you go in a store and they don't have Debian books Fuss at'em > Doug
Two points: 1) Look at http://www.debian.org/doc/ 2) The competition at debian.org pretty much kills the dead tree book market, IMHO. And if you have a problem with interpretation of something in .../doc/, ask on this list. Look particularly at Policy docs to get a feel for Debian self image. These are people who 'sweat the details' so that when they use Debian, they don't have to deal with stupid surprises. Just a user. Paul -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
