At 02:21 AM 12/12/98 +, Martin Wheeler wrote:
>I'm still talking to Laura Lewin (the research/acquisitions editor at IDG
>interested in getting this project going) about this, but perhaps the time
>is ripe for the whole Debian community to express its opinions on how
>such a "product" should b
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Joseph Carter wrote:
>
> I've been thinking about this actually. Even considered writing
> something to the effect at one point or another. Installation of Debian
> is not difficult but it does require in some cases a little help,
> especially when you get to the dselect st
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Nils Lohner wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Di Carlo writes:
> >
> >IDG, a publishing house who have authored the famous " for
> >Dummies" line of books, among others, have approached me about writing
> >a Debian-related book for them.
Likewise -- about a month
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 11:00:19PM +, Tom Lees wrote:
> May I suggest we start of with maybe a book aimed at Users, seeing as we do
> have plenty of documentation on-line available for developers. Something
> along the lines of the Linux-Getting-Started guide, but with more details
> about Netw
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 04:34:50PM -0500, Nils Lohner wrote:
>
> This would be a Good Thing (tm). Debian-doc has livened up again over the
> past few months, and it seems like several people are writing now. I've
> cc:'ed debian-doc, Oliver (who's coordinating most of the work) and Dale, as
>
This would be a Good Thing (tm). Debian-doc has livened up again over the
past few months, and it seems like several people are writing now. I've
cc:'ed debian-doc, Oliver (who's coordinating most of the work) and Dale, as
he's already written a Debian book. Plus, with a publisher interested
On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 10:21:43AM -0400, Nils Lohner wrote:
>
> I like the idea of a book, and think it will do a lot for Debian. I have an
> interesting idea... see what you think of this.
>
> - We don't do one book, we do several
> - each book focuses on a different part of debian and/or lin
I like the idea of a book, and think it will do a lot for Debian. I have an
interesting idea... see what you think of this.
- We don't do one book, we do several
- each book focuses on a different part of debian and/or linux in general
- we write the outlines for all of the books (start with on
[debian-doc is the correct list for this, I think; followups should go
there. Though good documentation is certainly good for publicity. :-) ]
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Seth Turner wrote:
>
> I went and looked at the work in progress. It is a lot of what I have
> in mind. What are your plans as fa
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Seth Turner wrote:
> I have seen a number of comments on Debian needing a book detailing things
> like installation, configuration, and the likes.
>
http://www.debian.org/~hp/debian-tutorial.html
You're welcome to send me unfinished chapters. :-)
I've got a couple hundred
> Spiff, do you have time and desire to coordinate this and do suggestions
> on what has to be included, ask for volunteers, ask individuall people to
> write sections, review things, write sections on your own?
And also translating into other languages. I'll do it for german. It is easier
to do i
Seth Turner wrote:
> I have seen a number of comments on Debian needing a book detailing things
> like installation, configuration, and the likes.
Like I said on #Debian already I see a big need for this. Debian
ships with a whoe bunch of mechanisms that only apply to Debian and
that are differen
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