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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"Alan Hicks and his team have finished revising the old 'Slackware Essentials' book and have now released a new and not outdated version for all you Slackware users out there. The old book was getting to be quite outdated, being a few years old.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. I'm starting to get the impression... by Teancom · · Score: 3, Funny

    that the previous version of this book was old? A little bit? Maybe?

    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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  2. First Post? by Alan+Hicks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey! I should get something! :-)

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  3. Here's a hint by snorklewacker · · Score: 2

    If you would like readers to think Slackware isn't some crusty fossil, it might help to not link to the old outdated version of the slackbook to the phrase "not outdated version". People might get the idea that that's the "not outdated version". Or something.

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  4. 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.

  5. 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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  6. Thanks by bonkeroo+buzzeye · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.