Friday·21·August·2015
German-written Debian Package Management Book //at 01:28 //by abe
Thursday was our big day: After more than 2.5 years of working in the hidden, ups and downs, Frank Hofmann and myself were able to announce the availability of our book project Debian Package Management under a free license (Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International License, short “CC BY-SA 4.0”) during a Lightning Talk at DebConf15 in Heidelberg.
This became possible because we found Onyx Neon, a publishing company which is specialised on books with contents under free licenses. Its founder does not only have a faible for Perl but also for Debian. (Since the question already came up: We also thought about self-publishing, e.g. via Lulu or Epubli — and it would have been our fallback solution —, but we prefer the professionalism and services of a real publisher. I’m though happy to share what I found out about self-publishing in the past few months.)
The source code of the book is written in the AsciiDoc format and available on GitHub.
The book is still work in progress. But if you want, you can already build an e-book out of the publically available source code:
sudo apt-get install asciidoc dblatex git git clone git://github.com/dpmb/dpmb.git cd dpmb make
(Works fine on Debian 7 Wheezy, Debian 8 Jessie and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty. Does not work on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise.)
If you find an error in the book, please file an issue on GitHub. If you also know how to fix the error, please for the Git repository on GitHub, fix the error in your Git repository and file a pull request. (The first pull request already happenend and has been applied.)
Initially there will be only a German written issue as e-book (at least in HTML, PDF and EPUB formats, maybe also KF8/MOBI and EPUB3) and at some point in the future also as printed book at Onyx Neon. But we’re also planning a translation to English as well as a Debian package.
If your want to get informed when we publish a printed book, a
translation or an official e-book release, please subscribe to one of
our mailing lists: There’s one in German and one in English.
Tagged as: APT, Aptitude, asciidoc, book, CC, CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-SA-4.0, dblatex, DebConf, DebConf15, Debian, dpkg, dpmb, efho, Heidelberg, Onyx Neon, Perl, WIP
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