Ubuntu Book by O'Reilly?

[j Mak]

--- Brian Astill <bastill at adam.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 May 2005 05:09 am, Tom Adelstein wrote:
> 
> > O'Reilly & Associates has an interest in releasing
> a book for Ubuntu
> > users. While all Linux books sales have increased
> significantly in 2005,
> > books on specific distributions like Fedora,
> Debian and JDS typically
> > lag behind the market.
> 
> Because they don't help as they should.
> This list has been helpful to me in offering
> commands I didn't know existed, 
> like alsamixer, lsmod, iptables, netstat. 
> (Fortunately I _knew_ "ifconfig 
> -a"  :-)  )  Most books won't find these helpful
> things for you.
> 
> Your book should be entitled "The Complete
> Ubuntu-Debian Book, 1st Edition".
> By the time it is published it will include the
> Breezy release (and perhaps 
> the one after that?).  It should also include
> references to both gnome and 
> KDE to please me :-) and Kubuntu users.
> Each chapter should address a specific computing
> area and be split into three 
> sections. 1 The Basics; 2. Technical explanation; 3.
> Advanced techniques and 
> troubleshooting.  
> Section 1 would have references to Section 3 (if
> this doesn't work see the 
> troubleshooting section under _this_ heading).
> The book will have a _really_ extensive index at the
> back (and might include a 
> live CD?).
> 
> Given this structure the book would probably appeal
> to ubuntu AND debian users 
> PLUS many linux users who struggle through simple
> things - like setting up a 
> SOHO network.  :-)
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Brian

I tend to agree with the above suggestions. The only
thing, I would like to add to it is that the book
shouldn't be long and should include plenty of
examples. 

Regards
jozsefmak
 
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