The Debian Administrator’s Handbook written by Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas  was originally published in France and through ULULE a campaign was started in November 2011 to liberate the book to be available to English readers throughout the world.

I am very excited to be able to receive this book in electronic format since I was not a large contributor. These days for my family money is very tight but I could not pass the opportunity to at least donate a few bucks to the project. The donation project was a success and now this highly acclaimed book in Europe is now available to English readers. It is even available on the web for free in HTML format or can be downloaded without donations. I ask that if someone does download that they help the project in any way that they can.

The concept is to keep the book free as is Debian, but printed copies are available for purchase also through LuLu’s print on demand service for about $50 US.

If you are interested in Debian from an administrator’s point of view, then this will be a prize for your collection.