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Kyle Rankin

The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course is published!

This book doesn't aim to be an exhaustive guide to everything you need to know to be a system administrator. Instead, this book allows me to act as a remote mentor to someone starting out in IT or system administration whether as a full-time job or as a full stack developer.

It's available in premium hardcover, paperback, and ebook forms here:
https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/kyle_rankin

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ljs

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@kyle @jebba nice, my book is using emacs (ooh err editor wars) and LaTeX.

You really cannot go wrong with just how beautifully LaTeX can lay things out.
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@jebba @kyle nice!

I'm currently using a fairly default article layout for mine, with plans to fiddle with layout later (because it'll probably drop my page count lol) though I'm happy with how I have code laid out.

Might take a look at that then!
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@kyle @jebba oh yeah it's massively better than trying to fiddle with a WYSIWYG setup.

My only issue is that if a chapter drags on in size build times get silly, but I split the chapters up and just \input them.

Oh and TikZ is fab. Have a bunch of diagrams that look nice and you can represent basically anything.

I have set things up so it has links to code throughout but also generates a list of source code at the end for a possible print edition.

At ~660 pages now and no signs of any issues (though FULL BOOK build times long lol)
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@kyle @jebba God I hate pasting stuff here because I instantly see things that could be tweaked 🤣

The editing phase of this is going to be fun... another year of writing first though pretty much.
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@jebba @kyle key (and hardest) thing is just writing the damn thing. Tweaks can come later.

Ultimately by its nature a lonely process
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ljs

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@kyle @jebba exactly.

And there's a thousands ways to procrastinate anyway, you don't need more.
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@kyle @jebba aren't we all 🤣
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