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Yesterday, Raphaël Hertzog[0], announced that The Debian Administrator’s HandBook[1] is available.

The Debian Administrator’s HandBook is a book written by Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas, two Debian Developers. It was originally  written in french, and now it has been translated into english.

You can browse the online version for free, or you can pay for it and get the paperback, or e-book version (in 3 formats: PDF, EPUB, Mobipocket)[2]

The book source is also available[3] for anyone who wants to contribute to the project.

With the book source available, we can expect a brazilian portuguese translation someday (as some people already commented on Raphaël’s announcement). As well as translations to other languages.

Links:
[0] http://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/05/10/the-debian-administrators-handbook-is-available/
[1] http://debian-handbook.info/
[2] http://debian-handbook.info/get/
[3] http://debian-handbook.info/contribute/

The Linux Foundation[0] released on their YouTube Channel[1] a video explaining in a easy-to-understand way how Linux is built.

After watching it, people who don’t know what Linux is will have an idea of how it is done and what it can do.

I must confess that it makes me proud to be part of this huge community

Links:
[0] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/
[1] http://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation

I’ve just made available a new version of away++, a python plugin for XChat2 IRC Client i wrote.

New Features:

• /awayall [away message]
  This command sets your status as away in all servers you are connected to. The away message is optional.
• /backall [nickname password]
  This command removes your away status in all servers you are connected to. It also identifies your nickname, if you pass your nickname password as an argument.

You can download the latest tarball through http://earruda.eti.br/files/away++_latest.tar.gz . Or accessing the development page: http://earruda.eti.br/blog/development/

I’ve created a page named Development, where i’ll put some tools, scripts and softwares made by me, or in which i had a hand on.

To start that page, i put a plugin for XChat2, named Away++. It changes your nick to an away-nick when you set your status to away and changes your nick back and identifies it when you set your status to back.

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