We’re pleased to announce the availability of “The Debian Administrator’s Handbook, Debian Wheezy from Discovery to Mastery”. This is the first major update of the book since the first edition (in May 2012).

We went through all chapters to update everything that changed with Debian 7. We also got rid of some really old content that was really no longer relevant. On the opposite, we added new stuff (such as a section about multi-arch), and addressed 16 bugs reported by loyal readers.

We hope that you will enjoy the result, browse it online or grab a copy (paperback/ebook). It should also be available as a Debian package (in Debian unstable but should be installable on any Debian system given that it has no dependencies).

As a special launch deal, you can get the paperback version with a 10% discount. Just click on this link and place your order before January 9th. Afterwards, the discount will be gone.

Just to give an idea of the amount of changes:

$ wc -l en-US/*.xml |grep total
  30263 total
$ git diff --stat debian/6.0+20120509 debian/7.20131230 en-US/*.xml
 en-US/00a_preface.xml                 |  202 +++++--
 en-US/00b_foreword.xml                |  314 +++++++----
 en-US/01_the-debian-project.xml       |  875 +++++++++++++++++-------------
 en-US/02_case-study.xml               |  210 ++++---
 en-US/03_existing-setup.xml           |  230 ++++----
 en-US/04_installation.xml             |  435 +++++++--------
 en-US/05_packaging-system.xml         |  738 +++++++++++++++----------
 en-US/06_apt.xml                      | 1418 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 en-US/07_solving-problems.xml         |  223 ++++----
 en-US/08_basic-configuration.xml      | 1166 +++++++++++++++++----------------------
 en-US/09_unix-services.xml            |  585 ++++++++------------
 en-US/10_network-infrastructure.xml   |  447 ++++++++-------
 en-US/11_network-services.xml         |  787 +++++++++++++++------------
 en-US/12_advanced-administration.xml  | 1188 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 en-US/13_workstation.xml              |  441 ++++++++-------
 en-US/14_security.xml                 |  270 +++++----
 en-US/15_debian-packaging.xml         |  164 +++---
 en-US/70_conclusion.xml               |   78 +--
 en-US/90_derivative-distributions.xml |  164 +++---
 en-US/92_short-remedial-course.xml    |  282 +++++-----
 en-US/Book_Info.xml                   |   13 +-
 21 files changed, 5567 insertions(+), 4663 deletions(-)

So about 20% of the book has been modified.