This book would have saved me countless hours, had it been available during the life of my very first Linux host. Kudos to Bill McCarty and O'Reilly books. It's good to see O'Reilly support Debian as a viable alternative to Red Hat as a newbie distro. Nothing against the good folks working with Bob Young, mind you. I just believe that Debian can provide a little better platform for folks who are, or grow into, serious Linux/Unix afficianados. My only complaint (and it's truly trivial :^) is with the colophon. A steer calf of that size wouldn't have fully developed horns. A rodeo bull would be about twice the size of the animal shown.