Actual real book!

[juliet]

The Book (Linux System Administration Recipes) is out! I have also received my author copies, which I am not entirely sure what to do with. But they are shiny, and one of them now lives on the shelf.

(Apparently it is not quite out yet in the UK.)

eta: & thank you to sbp for awesome tech reviewer work on it!

Comments

[pauamma]

Looks interesting. (I don't remember seeing any book from that publisher, and the cover color scheme doesn't ring any bell.)

(Out of curiosity: does it have a "This is the equivalent file/directory/command/admin command/admin task" *BSD-Linux phrasebook section? That's the main hurdle I find when trying to figure out how to do something I can do without thinking on FreeBSD, or how to install a new version of application foo using the package manager (And which one should/can I use? What are the pros/cons of each?), and it (and lack of time) kept me from getting into Linux beyond the "advanced commandline user" stage so far.)

[juliet]

I think I'd heard of them before I started writing the book, but not so often. They do seem to publish quite a lot of stuff!

I'm afraid there's no *BSD-Linux phrasebook - I'm not terribly familiar with *BSD myself (kind of the opposite problem from you!).

FWIW, package managers pretty much go along with distributions; I use Debian or Ubuntu (which use dpkg or aptitude which is the semi-graphical frontend to dpkg) in part because I prefer their packaging system, which does intelligent things like picking up dependencies for you. RPMs (Redhat et al) don't do this; or didn't last time I looked, anyway.

[pauamma]

*nod* The FreeBSD package manager (for precompiled stuff) and port manager (for compile-from-source) both deal with dependencies. (And too bad about the phrasebook. I can see a need for it, but I doubt it could fill up a book. Maybe a short run of articles? *tempt* *tempt*)

[juliet]

That's actually a pretty cool idea! I've added it to my ideas list & will see if I can pitch it to someone :) thanks!

[pauamma]

If they bite, let me know? I'm afraid I'm hopeless at most of what goes into for-money article writing, but I should (hopefully) be able to help with the *BSD (FreeBSD, at least) side of things.

[zorkian]

Oh, I have a few apress (APRESS?) titles about the house. They're definitely known, at least in the US, for technical books.

Congrats on the book being published! I'll be picking up a copy via Amazon. :)

[juliet]

Thank you! Awesome, hope it's useful :)