Re: Debian HOWTO

1998-09-07 Thread Guy's Account
[ please follow-up to debian-doc ... thanks, GH ] Thank you Kathy. I left my mail for a few days. In catching up I noticed some more developments on the HOWTO front. There were some exchanges involving: Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Debian HOWTO

1998-09-03 Thread Havoc Pennington
[sorry for the massive cc's - I'm not sure who's actually subscribed to this list] On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Lyno Sullivan wrote: > > In full consideration of the situation, I have made the personal choice to > copyleft all my creative works under the GPL and I generally recommend it > as the best way

Re: Debian HOWTO

1998-09-03 Thread Lyno Sullivan
At 05:05 PM 9/2/98 -0500, Kathy Miles wrote: >I would like to make this book >available for anyone to read but don't like the idea that someone could >rip it off and sell it themselves. Any suggestions or solutions to this >concern would be appreciated. Perhaps your copyright page could be a licen

Re: Debian HOWTO

1998-09-02 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Kathy Miles wrote: > Let me elaborate a bit on what Chuck and I are attempting to do. > We are working under a self-imposed narrow timeline, hoping to have the > initial version of the book done in one month. We want to cover debian > installation, setup and the basics o

Re: Debian HOWTO

1998-09-02 Thread Kathy Miles
On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Guy's Account wrote: > On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > > Kathy Miles and I are working on a web page designed to get new users > > > and/or Windows users started using Debian. We plan to publish it as a > > > book as well. Were covering more than is neede

Re: Debian HOWTO

1998-08-29 Thread Guy's Account
On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Kathy Miles and I are working on a web page designed to get new users > > and/or Windows users started using Debian. We plan to publish it as a > > book as well. Were covering more than is needed for a HOWTO and could > > incorporate into one. We w

Re: Debian HOWTO

1998-08-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Guy's Account wrote: > > Kathy Miles and I are working on a web page designed to get new users > > and/or Windows users started using Debian. We plan to publish it as a > > book as well. Were covering more than is needed for a HOWTO and could > > incorporate into one. We were planning on doing t

Re: Debian HOWTO

1998-08-29 Thread Guy's Account
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Chuck Peters wrote: > On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Guy's Account wrote: > > > > I'd like to work on this if there are no other takers. > But apparently there are ... > Kathy Miles and I are working on a web page designed to get new users > and/or Windows users started usin

Re: Debian HOWTO

1998-08-28 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > > I wonder if this needs better coordination. Currently there are at least > four book[1] projects and only one has been finished. > The Tutorial is the freely redistributable Debian Documentation Project book for newbies. I think some of the other

Re: Debian HOWTO

1998-08-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Chuck Peters wrote: > On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Guy's Account wrote: > > > On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > > > > > there is a RPM-HOWTO but no HOWTOs related to Debian, I would like to > > > > > see a HOWTO similar to RPM howto but describing the Debian package > > > > > format and gi

Re: Debian HOWTO

1998-08-28 Thread Chuck Peters
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Guy's Account wrote: > On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > > > there is a RPM-HOWTO but no HOWTOs related to Debian, I would like to > > > > see a HOWTO similar to RPM howto but describing the Debian package > > > > format and giving some information on how to in

Re: Debian HOWTO

1998-08-27 Thread Guy's Account
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > there is a RPM-HOWTO but no HOWTOs related to Debian, I would like to > > > see a HOWTO similar to RPM howto but describing the Debian package > > > format and giving some information on how to install debian packages > > > (using dpkg or apt)..

Re: Debian HOWTO

1998-08-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Guy's Account wrote: > > I just checked doc-linux (/usr/doc/HOWTO) and I was surprised to see that > > there is a RPM-HOWTO but no HOWTOs related to Debian, I would like to see a > > HOWTO similar to RPM howto but describing the Debian package format and > > giving some information on how to insta

Re: Debian HOWTO

1998-08-25 Thread Guy's Account
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: > > I just checked doc-linux (/usr/doc/HOWTO) and I was surprised to see that > there is a RPM-HOWTO but no HOWTOs related to Debian, I would like to see a > HOWTO similar to RPM howto but describing the Debian package format and > giving some