New Slackware Handbook Released

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"Alan Hicks and his team have finished revising the old 'Slackware Essentials' book and have now released a new and not outdated version for all you Slackware users out there. The old book was getting to be quite outdated, being a few years old.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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[bonkeroo buzzeye]

I've only read a bit into it - obviously any detailed post is going to be a while in coming - but it looks good so far. As someone who's spent a lot of time using Slack and a lot of time trying to help people out at LQ with Slack, I can't tell you how nice it is to have the opportunity to say 'Read the Book' instead of 'Read the Book. It's a little (ahem) outdated, but still pretty useful in places'.

Forgive me if this has come up a zillion times already since, while I knew of the project, I hadn't followed it closely - any plans to maybe place it in a restricted wiki context to quickly fold in updates and *keep* it updated with 2.1s and 2.2s or do we risk several more years before a 3.0?

Anyway - it's really nice to see this and hopefully will help ease others into the use of the fantastic distro.