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New Slackware Handbook Released

Posted by timothy on from the slacking-does-not-mean-dozing dept.

Rob_Ogilvie writes "Alan Hicks and his team have finished revising the old 'Slackware Essentials' book and have now released a new and not outdated version for all you Slackware users out there. The old book was getting to be quite outdated, being a few years old. For those of you who like dead trees, this new version is available for pre-order now, in dead-tree format."

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  1. Re:I'm starting to get the impression... by Rob_Ogilvie · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah. Not my best writing ever. ;-)

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    Rob
  2. Book is insuficient by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It doesn't discuss many things that me as an admin of a printer and file server need to know.

    1. Re:Book is insuficient by Alan+Hicks · · Score: 2, Informative
      It doesn't discuss many things that me as an admin of a printer and file server need to know.

      That's not a bug; it's a feature. Seriously.

      The book isn't intended for a file and print server admin. It's intended to introduce newbies to GNU/Linux in general, and Slackware in particular. If you're already capable of running your own file and print server, you're probably past the scope of the book.

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      Slackware, what else when it must be secure, stable, and easy?
  3. Re:slackware's cutting edge offerings: by Narchie+Troll · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's absurd.

    cfdisk is provided and has been for quite some time, and X.org has been included since 10.0. A simple X -configure generates a good config for many machines. Your claims are more or less baseless.