{"id":14374,"date":"2026-10-07T07:58:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=14374"},"modified":"2026-10-07T07:58:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:58:41","slug":"book-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=14374","title":{"rendered":"Book Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"14374\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"cookie\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve posted an update about my new books, the 3rd Edition of <em>&#8220;Using and Administering Linux \u2013 Zero to SysAdmin.&#8221;<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This project has taken much longer than anticipated due to the extended illness and death of my wife of 40 years, Alice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current Status<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volumes 1 and 2 have been sent to production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m still working on Volume 3, but there are only a few chapters left. This has been an especially complex volume since there have been a lot of changes in the servers, especially email. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thanks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This has also affected my ability to write for Both.org, so I&#8217;ve not posted any of my own articles here for some time. Many thanks to Jim, Don, and Seth, for taking up some of that slack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My thanks also to Apress and my editors there for being flexible during this difficult time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s been a while since I&rsquo;ve posted an update about my new books, the 3rd Edition of &ldquo;Using<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[57,29,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-information","category-linux"],"modified_by":"David Both","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14374"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14677,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14374\/revisions\/14677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}