The Debian System book

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 06:25:02PM -0400, meng wrote:
> 
> -----Original message-----
> From: lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen)
> Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:09:18 -0400
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: The Debian System book
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 12:21:07PM -0400, meng wrote:
> > > Has anyone read "The Debian System" by Martin F. Krafft, http://debiansystem.info/ ?
> > > I'm wondering if it's worth getting, it's dated 2005 and covers "Sarge".
> > > 
> > > Or should I just stick with the Debian Reference manual, http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ ?
> > > If it covers the same ground, I might as well refer to the online documentation.
> > 
> > I never buy computer books, because they are always obsolete by the time
> > they are in print.  Online references are much easier to keep up to date.
> > Certainly sarge is irrelevant now, given it has been replaced twice now
> > (etch and lenny).  Major changes have happened.
> 
> Good points, you've convinced me :-)

I do make an exception for good programming language reference books
for stable languages.  Those are nice to have.

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