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Help Liberate the Debian Administrator's Handbook

Posted by Unknown on from the books-want-to-be-free-too dept.

First time accepted submitter buxy writes "Roland Mas and me [Raphael Hertzog] are the authors of a French Debian bestseller. We want to translate this book into English and publish it under a license compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. That would be the first free and up-to-date book about Debian that can be integrated into Debian. But we need your support to make this happen. Pledge some money [toward the translation effort] and get a copy of the book once it's done! As a special bonus, you can alternatively support the project and have about 12% of the donated money given back to the Debian project."

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  1. Security... by systematical · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will the French version tell me to build a great line of firewalls that are easily circumvented by going through a router in Belgium?

  2. Re:Why the big bag-o-cash needed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe they'd prefer to have their book translated by a professional translator, so it is stylistically consistent, uses proper grammar and the content is correct. Without waiting years until a community effort reaches the same state, that is.