We’re pleased to announce the availability of “The Debian Administrator’s Handbook, Debian Jessie from Discovery to Mastery”.

We went through all the chapters to update the content so that it matches your experience with Debian 8 “Jessie“. We added new sections (covering systemd, AppArmor) and dealt with many requests of our most loyal readers who took the time to file a bug report with their suggestions and their fixes.

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 15% discount. Just click on this link and place your order before November 9th. Afterwards, the discount will be gone.

As usual we welcome reviews and comments!

Much later than what I hoped for, we have completed the update of our book for Debian 8 “Jessie”. We are currently proofreading all the chapters and you are invited to help us in this process.

To this end, the book is now available online:

• browse HTML version online
• download EPUB version for your ebook reader
• download Mobipocket version for your Kindle

Among all the usual updates there are some noteworthy changes:

• a new section on systemd
• a new section on AppArmor

If you find mistakes or typos, feel free to report them in the comments or by sending us an email. Even better if you can double check the git repository first to ensure that we did not fix them yet.

You get extra bonus points if you review a whole chapter and send us a patch ready to apply on our git tree. 🙂

We hope to publish the final version of the book by the end of the month.