David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > I can't understand why Debian would involve itself in writing > tutorials for commands like mount, ls, and so on, or glossaries > of terms like strictatime and device file. > > All this is standard linux/unix information, well catered for by > libraries of books from several well-known publishers, O'Reilly > being one of the best known. I spent 1997/8 immersing myself in such > texts, at a time when these books had to be bought. (Public libraries > only had Idiots' guides to W95, etc.) Now there are a wealth of > free PDFs at every level of expertise on the web, there for the > downloading.
The Debian project actually hosts some documentation efforts at <https://www.debian.org/doc/>. Among these are the book-like „The Administrator's Handbook” [1] and the „Debian Reference” [2]. They contain information on Debian-specific as well as general *nix usage. [1] <https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-handbook/> [2] <https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/> -- Felix Dietrich
