UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 5th Edition

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For previous editions of this book, we used Adobe FrameMaker as our layout tool and were (more or less) happy with its features, stability, and facility with book-length writing projects. But although FrameMaker still exists, it now runs only on Windows and has become an increasingly vestigial member of the Adobe lineup.

Rather than targeting the general publishing market, Adobe seems to be pitching FrameMaker predominantly to multilingual workshops and to the poor lost souls who generate government-mandated SGML content. The product’s core features haven’t been updated in decades. It’s like seeing a much-admired football quarterback working at the local mini mart loading hot dogs onto the fancy rolling cooker: someone ...