Good CURRENT Debian Linux books for converts?

I am looking for comments on GOOD and RECENT or CURRENT books for Debian, since thats the underlying distro for Knoppix, for a convert.

I've got a background in stuff from a PDP8e to DOS to wimpdoze, and some of the basics of *nix/Linux systems.

I've looked at the offerings at Amazon and various Linux sites and all seem to be several years old. Some 4+ years!

Any thing more current than 2 or more years old.

The stuff available at debian.org is very helpful and up to date: http://www.debian.org/doc/

The Linux Documentation Project is also a great source for manuals of all kinds: http://www.tldp.org/

If you need them in dead tree format just download them, stick them on a disk, take them to Kinkos, and pay $5-$10 each to have them printed and bound ;-)

--Actually I couldn't believe it until I went to www.oreilly.com and found that the current Debian offering is from 1999.

--Oh well. Actually you can prolly get away with an outdated book and the latest documentation on apt-get and friends.

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Originally Posted by rec9140

I am looking for comments on GOOD and RECENT or CURRENT books for Debian, since thats the underlying distro for Knoppix, for a convert.

I've got a background in stuff from a PDP8e to DOS to wimpdoze, and some of the basics of *nix/Linux systems.

I've looked at the offerings at Amazon and various Linux sites and all seem to be several years old. Some 4+ years!

Any thing more current than 2 or more years old.

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Originally Posted by Dave_Bechtel

--Actually I couldn't believe it until I went to www.oreilly.com and found that the current Debian offering is from 1999.

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I was amazed myself. Sometimes I gotta have that book so I can quit looking at the screen. :cool:

Kinko's doesn't sound like a bad option though.