Re: pine (was: Re: debian-faq: patch5 to remove some outdated content)

2016-05-09 Thread Andrzej Bylicki
I agree. There is no need to write extensively on nvidia-* packages and both the Flash plugin and Broadcom drivers should be sufficient examples. ~ Andy On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:54 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 09:50:45PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Hendrik

Re: pine (was: Re: debian-faq: patch5 to remove some outdated content)

2016-05-08 Thread Andrzej Bylicki
Per notable examples, I would also mention the broadcom-sta driver (non-free, but available as source code, pulled from upstream [Broadcom]) and the Adobe Flash plugin (non-free and only available as binary 'blob', pulled from upstream [Adobe]). Broadcom wireless adapters are popular and Flash is

Re: LDP still relevant?

2016-05-01 Thread Andrzej Bylicki
I agree that something needs to be done in respect to the LDP and GNU/Linux documentation in general. BSDs have fantastic documentation and I feel GNU/Linux as an ecosystem also deserves such. Although probably the most demanding, working on individual manpages for/with upstream projects would be t

Contributing to Debian Documentation

2016-04-22 Thread Andrzej Bylicki
Hello, Having used Debian for a while now and being an intermediate GNU/Linux and UNIX user, I decided the time has come for me to give back to the community. I would like to contribute to Debian's vast documentation resources, especially in regards to installation, maintenance and hardware compat