A few weeks after the electronic version, I’m pleased to announce that the paperback version has also been updated for Debian 10 Buster. You can get it on lulu.com as usual.
Debian Handbook for Debian 10 Buster, now live !
Many of you have been asking me when I will publish an updated version of the Debian Handbook… the last proper release dates back to Debian 8 Jessie !
Yes I entirely skipped Debian 9. I didn’t want this to happen again so I hired two external contributors to update the book for Debian 10 (thank you Daniel Leidert and Jorge Maldonado Ventura).
The content has been ready for a while in git but I’m so swamped with other duties that I never put out a proper release. I wanted to review everything myself but I failed at doing this. And instead of always postponing until I find the required time, I figured out it would be better just to release what we have right now and let the community do its magic (including translators that will review what they have to translate!).
So here you are. You can get the Debian Handbook for Debian 10. If you find out issues, please report them (on salsa.debian.org preferably).
There’s no paperback version yet. The print version on lulu.com is still the Debian 8 version. I will try to fix this in the coming weeks.
I hope you will enjoy it!
Get the Norwegian bokmål version of the Debian Administrator’s Handbook
(Norwegian Bokmål translation at the end)
I’m pleased to announce that the Norwegian translation team lead by Petter Reinholdtsen completed the translation of the Debian Administrator’s Handbook (Jessie version). They even did everything required to publish a paperback version of the book.
Now have a look at the book and download your copy.
We all hope you will enjoy the book, and spread the word about this new translation. The translators did a tremendous job, they deserve a bit of publicity.
BTW, there’s a 25% discount for the launch of this new paperback, it’s only valid until August 8th so hurry up!
Skaff deg bokmålsutgaven av Håndbok for Debian-administratoren
Jeg er glad for å kunne annonsere at bokmålsoversetterne, ledet av Petter Reinholdtsen, har fullført oversettelsen av Håndbok for Debian-administratoren (Jessie-utgaven). De har til og med gjort alt som kreves for å gi ut en paperback-utgave av boken.
Nå kan du ta en titt på boken og laste ned ditt eksemplar.
Vi håper alle at du vil ha glede av denne boken, og spre ordet om denne nye oversettelsen. Oversetterne har fullført en stor jobb, og fortjener at arbeidet blir kjent.
Forresten, det er 25% rabatt i forbindelse med lanseringen av denne paperback-utgaven. Rabatten er tilgjengelig frem til 8. august, så skynd deg!
Get the French Version of the Debian Administrator’s Handbook
While the French e-book has been available for a while already, the finalization of the French paperback with its French editor Eyrolles took longer than expected.
But the book is now available in any good bookstore. Go grab your copy.
You might have noticed that the cover is really different this time. This is because the book moved from the collection “Cahier de l’Admin” (Admin Handbook) to the collection “Blanche” (White collection).
Get the Japanese version of the Debian Administrator’s Handbook
(Japanese translation at the end)
I’m pleased to announce that the Japanese translation team lead by Ryuunosuke Ayanokouzi completed the translation of the Debian Administrator’s Handbook (Jessie version). They even did everything required to publish a paperback version of the book.
Now have a look at the book and download your copy.
We all hope you will enjoy the book, and spread the word about this new translation. The translators did a tremendous job, they deserve a bit of publicity.
BTW, there’s a 25% discount for the launch of this new paperback, it’s only valid until March 16th so hurry up!
Debian 管理者ハンドブック日本語版の販売開始のお知らせ
Ryuunosuke Ayanokouzi の率いる日本語翻訳チームが Debian 管理者ハンドブック (Jessie 版) の日本語翻訳を成し遂げました。われわれ著者はこのニュースを発表できることを嬉しく思います。さらに日本語翻訳チームは日本語翻訳のペーパーバック版を出版するために必要なすべての作業までも行いました。
現在、皆様は日本語版をウェブ上で閲覧したり、手元にダウンロードしたりすることが可能です。
われわれ著者は日本語版が皆様の役に立ち、本書の新たな翻訳版として広く認知されることを願っています。日本語翻訳チームは素晴らしい仕事を成し遂げ、多くの貢献を果たしています。
また、今なら日本語ペーパーバック版の販売開始を記念して 25% 割引セールを実施中です。割引セールは 3 月 16 日までの期間限定で行われていますので、この機会をぜひお見逃しなく!
Major update of the Debian Administrator’s Handbook for Debian 8 “Jessie”
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!
The Debian Administrator’s Handbook Updated for Debian 8 Available for Proofreading
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.
First translations of the Debian Wheezy Handbook: French, Spanish, and more to come?
I’m glad to announce that the Wheezy version of the Debian Administrator’s Handbook now sports two full translations with the French and Spanish ones.
French: Cahier de l’Admin Debian Wheezy
Not really a surprise since this is our mother tongue and since the last crowdfunding campaign made this work possible. Still, it’s an important milestone for us because this is first time Eyrolles publishes this book under a free license from the start.
The book is thus available as a paperback in all (good) bookstores as well as an e-book that you can read online and download.
Spanish: El libro del administrador de Debian
The Spanish translation team lead by Matías Bellone worked very hard to get back to 100% of translated strings and you can now enjoy the result.
Let us thank the translators:
- Matías Bellone
- Adrià García-Alzórriz
- Rene Saavedra
- all the persons who contributed to the translation of the former version of the book
Crowdfunding campaign for the Arabic translation
Muhammad Saied is currently running a crowdfunding campaign to gather the $4500 required to let him and Mohamed Amine complete the translation.
If you speak and read Arabic (or more generally care about spreading Debian in the part of the world that uses this language), click here and go support this project!
Other translations
There are many other translations that would benefit from some help to get closer to completion. You can already browse and download the corresponding books.
Here’s the progression of all the existing translations:
- Arabic (ar-MA): 9%
- Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR): 36%
- Chinese (zh-CN): 26%
- Farsi (Persian) (fa-IR): 0%
- French (fr-FR): 100%
- Danish (da-DK): 0%
- German (de-DE): 66%
- Greek (el-GR): 1%
- Hungarian (hr-HR): 3%
- Indonesian (id-ID): 8%
- Italian (it-IT): 64%
- Japanese (ja-JP): 0%
- Polish (pl-PL): 2%
- Romanian (ro-RO): 1%
- Russian (ru-RU): 29%
- Spanish (es-ES): 100%
- Turkish (tr-TR): 0%
Major update of the Debian Administrator’s Handbook for Debian 7 (Wheezy)
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.
First chapters of the Debian Administrator’s Handbook updated for Debian 7
I know that we’re late, but better late than never… we’re in the process of updating the book for Debian 7 Wheezy.
You can follow our progress in the TODO file in the Git repository.
Nothing is final yet, but if you’re interested, you can read and review the chapters that have already been updated:
- 1. The Debian Project
- 2. Presenting the Case Study
- 3. Analyzing the Existing Setup and Migrating
- 4. Installation
- 5. Packaging System: Tools and Fundamental Principles
- 6. Maintenance and Updates: The APT Tools
- 7. Solving Problems and Finding Relevant Information
- 8. Basic Configuration: Network, Accounts, Printing…
- 12. Advanced Administration
- 13. Workstation
- 14. Security
- 15. Creating a Debian Package
If you find inaccuracies, typos, or spelling mistakes, please let us know. You can use the comments on this article or a direct email to the authors.
Update of 2013-07-31: Added the 6th and 15th chapter to the list.
Update of 2013-10-14: Added the 8th chapter to the list.