slacky.eu

Yeap, that's right. Work has begun on a new Slackware Book to replace
Slackware Linux Essentials 2nd Edition. Very little details have been
released just yet. The new book is a complete rewrite from scratch with
nothing[0]. A license has not yet been determined. Likely the book
will be released under the GNU FDL or a BSD license, but Creative
Commons licenses have not been ruled out entirely yet.[1] Any major
updates will be announced here as well as on the book's website.

http://www.slackbook.org/

[0] Well, not quite nothing. I've discussed including at least one
chapter with simple updates with the author of those pieces due to the
new license.
[1] Honestly I haven't really looked into Creative Commons licenses as
the FDL or BSD license are well-known and seem to fit my needs well
enough.

The book is being organized not to differentiate between
what's Slackware and what's generic, but rather to begin with what a
newbie most likely needs to know and work up to harder concepts.
Basically after the prelude we get to the installer, then booting (I
have no idea how many newbies messed up dual-boot stuff with the old
book, but I suspect it's a lot), basic shell stuff and bash, then onto
X, and printing. This should be all the newbie needs to know to get
his hardware setup correctly.[1] From there we go into basic sysadmin
stuff like managing users and groups, filesystem permissions, mounting,
vi, emacs, etc. Some of this will be touched on earlier in a simpler
manner of course, with references to these chapters.

After that we'll discuss networking (including wireless) and basic
networking commands. We round it out with pkgtool, keeping up with
- -stable, and compiling a kernel (as well as when to do so and when NOT
to do so). Somewhere in here I need to discuss using the generic
kernel and mkinitrd. I considered putting that in the Installation
chapter, or perhaps Booting, but felt that would be too intimidating to
a new user.