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Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books

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On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 01:35:25AM -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have been looking for commercial books written about Debian and there is
> very little selection. I am considering writing an updated Debian GNU/Linux
> Bible for Bookworm/Trixie. Before I started writing it I was wondering if
> anyone would even be interested in buying a copy of it?
> 

I've been into a couple of the largest bookshops in UK in the last few
months - there are fewer and fewer physical books on shelves.

A Debian specific book would be welcome - but the Debian Handbook already
covers much of that. We may end up with refugees from Red Hat distros in
due course but learning apt covers much of that. (If you can use
GNOME in one distro, it's similar in all - and I'm not sure when
Ubuntu last published a handbook, for example).

The big Linux System Administration Handbook - the one with three authors
including Evi Nemeth - is a really good example of something with masses
of good general information but almost nobody has it.

O'Reilly books are primarily online now: I think it would be hard to find
a niche that would fit a new book or a physical book publisher to take it
(and no, I'm not thinking of the average print on demand publisher who
mostly specialises in of out of copyright books, though that might be
an option).

The Red Hat certification market has three or four books: it might be
that maddog and the Linux Professional Institute would be interested
as their courses cover all distros.

Yes, I'd probably buy a copy - I have a physical copy of most of the
Debian books that there are. The most useful at one point was probably
the O'Reilly one which came with a CD.

I do tend to rely on the knowledge and expertise here: Greg - how
would you rate the chances of physical copies of your Bash guides,
for example?

All the very best, as ever,

> Thanks
> 
> Tim
> 
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Debian GNU/Linux Books Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2023-11-12 07:40 +0100
  Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-11-12 09:40 +0100
    Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-11-12 10:20 +0100
    Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2023-11-12 12:10 +0100
      Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-11-12 12:20 +0100
        Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-11-12 13:00 +0100
          Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-11-12 16:30 +0100
        Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-11-12 13:10 +0100
    Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2023-11-13 19:10 +0100
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  Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2023-11-12 10:10 +0100
  Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2023-11-12 11:00 +0100
    Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-11-12 11:10 +0100
      Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2023-11-12 11:50 +0100
  Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-11-12 12:50 +0100
    Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-11-12 15:30 +0100
      Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-11-12 16:00 +0100
        Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books Aleix Piulachs <ap77.v68@gmail.com> - 2023-11-12 19:10 +0100
      Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-11-12 23:50 +0100
  Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-11-12 20:50 +0100
  Re: Debian GNU/Linux Books songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-11-13 17:20 +0100

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