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I eventually got a copy of "The Debian System: Concepts and Techniques" by Martin Kraft. It's mostly well written and very helpful.
I wish I'd got it earlier... as it's based on the then upcoming release of Sarge, and as we are now well on the way road to the release of Etch, there are a hadnful of things that are now slightly dated. However it was written with an eye on the future, so it's still very useful, and I expect it to continue to be useful well into the release of Etch.
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Its a good book and I have a 75% complete review ready to post here sometime. I must get that finished soon.
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The problem with this book and many other learning type books is that the people who need to read them are not the people best placed to review them. The people who should review them are often the least likley to read them.
Until other languages got all the fame Perl use to suffer endlessly with awful "Learn PERL/CGI without having to think" books that all the people in the know avoided, but all the people not in the know use to buy.
While I use Debian every day I don't use it in my job, I'm not formally trained, and I don't consider myself to be qualified to critically review this book from a technical content perspective. Content aside, I think it's quite well written (if a little odd in places), and seems to me to be a very good book.
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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