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

[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.