The documents listed below were either written a long time ago and are not up to date or have been written for previous versions of Debian and have not been updated to current versions. Their information is outdated, but may still be of interest to some.
dselect Documentation for Beginners
This file documents dselect for first-time users, and is intended to help in getting Debian installed successfully. It makes no attempt to explain everything, so when you first meet dselect, work through the help screens.
| Authors: | Stéphane Bortzmeyer |
| Maintainer: | (?) |
| Status: | stalled: aptitude has replaced dselect as the standard Debian package management interface |
| Availability: |
Latest version: Catalan: [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] Czech: [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] Danish: [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] German: [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] English: [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] Spanish: [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] French: [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] Croatian: [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] Italian: [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] Japanese: [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] Polish: [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] Portuguese: [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] Russian: [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] Slovak: [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] Use SVN to download the SGML source text for dselect-beginner. |
This User's Guide
is nothing but a reformatted Progeny User's Guide
.
Contents are adjusted for the standard Debian system.
Over 300 pages with a good tutorial to start using the Debian system from GUI desktop and shell command line.
| Authors: | Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. |
| Maintainer: | Osamu Aoki (青木 修) |
| Status: | Useful itself as a tutorial. Written for the woody release, getting obsolete. |
| Availability: |
Latest version: English: [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] Use SVN to download the SGML source text for users-guide. |
This manual is for a new Linux user, to help such a user get acquainted with Linux once they have installed it, or for a new Linux user on a system which someone else is administering.
| Authors: | Havoc Pennington, Oliver Elphick, Ole Tetlie, James Treacy, Craig Sawyer, Ivan E. Moore II |
| Editors: | Havoc Pennington |
| Maintainer: | (?) |
| Status: | stalled; incomplete; probably obsoleted by Debian Reference |
| Availability: |
not yet complete
Latest version: English: [HTML] Use SVN to download the SGML source text for tutorial. |
Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage
A manual, oriented towards the end-user.
| Authors: | John Goerzen, Ossama Othman |
| Editors: | John Goerzen |
| Status: | ready (but it is for potato) |
| Availability: | Debian package debian-guide |
This manual provides at least an overview of everything a user should know about their Debian GNU/Linux system (i.e. setting up X, how to configure network, accessing floppy disks, etc.). It is intended to bridge the gap between the Debian Tutorial and the detailed manual and info pages supplied with each package.
It is also intended to give some idea of how to combine commands, on the general Unix principle, that there is always more than one way to do it.
| Authors: | Ardo van Rangelrooij, Jason D. Waterman, Havoc Pennington, Oliver Elphick, Bruce Evry, Karl-Heinz Zimmer |
| Editors: | Thalia L. Hooker, Oliver Elphick |
| Maintainer: | (?) |
| Status: | stalled and quite incomplete; probably obsoleted by Debian Reference |
| Availability: |
Latest version: English: [HTML] Use SVN to download the SGML source text for user. |
Debian System Administrator's Manual
This document is mentioned in the introduction of the Policy manual. It covers all system administration aspects of a Debian system.
| Authors: | Tapio Lehtonen |
| Maintainer: | (?) |
| Status: | stalled; incomplete; probably obsoleted by Debian Reference |
| Availability: |
not yet available
Latest version: English: [HTML] Use SVN to download the SGML source text for system-administrator. |
Debian Network Administrator's Manual
This manual covers all network administration aspects of a Debian system.
| Authors: | Ardo van Rangelrooij, Oliver Elphick, Duncan C. Thomson, Ivan E. Moore II |
| Maintainer: | (?) |
| Status: | stalled; incomplete; probably obsoleted by Debian Reference |
| Availability: |
not yet available
Latest version: English: [HTML] Use SVN to download the SGML source text for network-administrator. |
A hands-on reference guide to the Debian GNU/Linux system that shows,
in over 1,500 recipes
, how to use it for everyday activities — from
working with text, images, and sound to productivity and networking
issues. Like the software the book describes, the book is copylefted
and its source data is available.
| Authors: | Michael Stutz |
| Status: | published; written for woody, getting obsolete |
| Availability: | Debian package linuxcookbook |
Documentation about the internals of dpkg, and how to write new tools for package management using the dpkg libraries. This would be useful to a limited audience only.
| Authors: | Klee Dienes |
| Status: | stalled |
| Availability: | Debian package dpkg-doc HTML online |
Introduction: Making a Debian Package
Introduction on how to create a .deb, using
debmake.
| Authors: | Jaldhar H. Vyas |
| Status: | stalled, obsoleted by New Maintainers' Guide |
| Availability: | HTML online |
Helps new developers to create a package for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
| Authors: | Igor Grobman |
| Status: | obsoleted by New Maintainers' Guide |
| Availability: |
Latest version: English: [HTML] Use SVN to download the SGML source text for programmer. |
This manual tells the user where to look for the document that covers their questions.
| Authors: | Ardo van Rangelrooij, Oliver Elphick |
| Maintainer: | (?) |
| Status: | planned |
| Availability: |
not ready yet, seems unmaintained
Latest version: English: [HTML] Use SVN to download the SGML source text for meta. |
A list of books of note to Debian users or maintainers.
| Authors: | Ardo van Rangelrooij, Oliver Elphick, Tapio Lehtonen |
| Maintainer: | ? |
| Status: | planned |
| Availability: |
not ready yet
Latest version: English: [HTML] Use SVN to download the SGML source text for book-suggestions. |
I've been thinking for a long time that we need a Debian dictionary.
This project definitely has its own peculiar lingo. Perhaps we could
set up a WWW form somewhere so that folks could submit new terms and
definitions as they occurred to them.
| Authors: | Ardo van Rangelrooij, Oliver Elphick |
| Maintainer: | ? |
| Status: | planned |
| Availability: |
not ready
Latest version: English: [HTML] Use SVN to download the SGML source text for dictionary. The dict-vera and dict-foldoc packages include definitions for a lot of Debian-related terms and abbreviations. |