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Hi,
I am a newbie to Arch and I wanted to see if there is a free book (in PDF format) that can serve as a comprehensive reference to Arch. Does such a thing exist?
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No, but we have a vast amount of wiki pages which should be more than sufficient for anyone.
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No, as far as I know. Just the wiki, the tutorials and the best and prepared community I ever seen.
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Packages arch-wiki-lite and arch-wiki-docs might be the things you look for if you need offline documentation.
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There is. Arhlinux Handbook 3.0 in mobi format http://archlinux.ca/arch_linux_handbook_3.mobi
You can convert easily from mobi to pdf
You can find more details on Dusty's blog - http://archlinux.me/dusty/2012/09/09/ar … or-kindle/
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There is. Arhlinux Handbook 3.0 in mobi format http://archlinux.ca/arch_linux_handbook_3.mobi
You can convert easily from mobi to pdf
You can find more details on Dusty's blog - http://archlinux.me/dusty/2012/09/09/ar … or-kindle/
Arch moves fast and thus the book gets outdated pretty fast.
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Arch moves fast and thus the book gets outdated pretty fast.
That's the thing, I recall there was a semi-official book once covering the installation of arch. Since then, the "Installer" is gone, GRUB is now version 2, systemd is near standard on arch, meaning that about 70% of that book is now outdated. It was nice at its time, but a newbie won't be able to install a base system with it now.
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I just do not understand why anyone would use anything other than the wiki (and the forum) as a reference.
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I just do not understand why anyone would use anything other than the wiki (and the forum) as a reference.
Preference and choice?
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